Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 2 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 3 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 4 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 5 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 6 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 7 | In the mid-1940s , explanations for this were offered in the form of theories which presented anatomical features as the cause of the blacks ' advantages . |
| 8 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 9 | Some interesting reasons for this were suggested in The Observer in 1986 . |
| 10 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 11 | It was not officially ‘ discovered ’ until the 1970s , when a few were brought to the United States . |
| 12 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 13 | In her research into the effects of divorce on children , Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that some siblings had been divided between the two parents , though some were reunited after the divorce . |
| 14 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 15 | For example , some were moved to the edges of the older urban cores as a result of the construction of peripheral public-housing schemes in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 16 | Some were converting from the heavies such as the Lincoln and Washington , others from the recce and light bomber Mosquito squadrons . |
| 17 | Some were hanging near the surface , while others lay on their sides on the bottom motionless , looking quite dead . |
| 18 | Some were based on the pre-war zaibatsu family-run conglomerates , others are centred on a big manufacturer such as Toyota , Nippon Steel or Matsushita . |
| 19 | Subsequently , while the total number of 110mph trains was retained some were withdrawn from the Glasgow service in favour of key Manchester and Liverpool business trains . |
| 20 | Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field . |
| 21 | Even big tough men have teddies hidden away somewhere , and some were brought into the open at the Didcot Railway Centre Teddy Bears Picnic . |
| 22 | Many of the vehicles found their way back to the West , some were delivered to the Middle East and some to the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Some were dancing to the beat . |
| 24 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 25 | It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge . |
| 26 | Some were buried with the Pharaoh Tutankhamun ( about 1350 BC ) . |
| 27 | Although the banking sector continued to be the largest purchaser of these Treasury bills , some were purchased by the M4 private sector ( i.e. the UK private sector excluding banks and building societies ) ( see Table 6.4 ) . |
| 28 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 29 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 30 | Of 64 men with NGU , half were infected with the bacterium ; compared with one out of seven men with gonococcal urethritis and four out of 30 controls . |