Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
| 2 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 3 | This was out of the question . |
| 4 | This was out in the street afterwards . ’ |
| 5 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 6 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 7 | Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older . |
| 8 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 9 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 10 | Yes , we saw a white one , that was round near the leisure centre . |
| 11 | That was through to the end of September . |
| 12 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 13 | That was up near the Arsenal football ground . |
| 14 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 15 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 16 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
| 17 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 18 | That was down at the the little wooden . |
| 19 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 20 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
| 21 | Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite . |
| 22 | That was out of the question now ; concentration would be impossible . |
| 23 | No , she thought , that was out of the question . |
| 24 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 25 | Yeah , that was out of the cash money I had ! |