Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area . |
| 2 | But Jesus ' sufferings were experienced on behalf of humankind , not because Jesus was unrealistic about himself . |
| 3 | His words were echoed by representatives from the sports clubs . |
| 4 | Those words were spoken in Dundee on 3 October 1911 by Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | These same characteristics were found in children with functional faecal retention , a condition common in the school age child , in which physiology of the colon is believed to be normal and constipation results from retentive behaviour by a child who is afraid of painful defecation . |
| 6 | These guidelines were submitted to Nato in May 1969 . |
| 7 | The Guidelines were introduced as part of the recent launch of the International Hotels Environment Initiative ( IHEI ) in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales and attended by hotel representatives from 11 of the leading hotel chains of the world , between them controlling over 11 million rooms . |
| 8 | Metal polish , on the other hand , often contains ammonia which can burn skin and petroleum distillates which are highly poisonous if swallowed ; aspirin — one of the most widely used painkillers — can damage the stomach lining and is dangerous for people with stomach ulcers and kidney problems ; and more cases of salmonella food poisoning were caused by beef in the UK during 1984 than by any other single meat . |
| 9 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 10 | She died in the December of that year , joining her husband in the family grave ; many letters of condolence were received by Ernie at Freegrove Road , including one from Cousin Alf Davidge of Cricklewood — the husband of Benjamin James 's daughter , Bessie . |
| 11 | Death and renewal were accepted as part of an ever-continuing cycle . |
| 12 | In the late 1870s and 1880s a whole succession of attractive stations with complex roof-lines and towers with conical caps were built at towns like Craigleith ( 1872 ) , Streetsville ( 1879 ) , Smithville , Grimsby ( 1882 ) , Whitby , and Don ( 1899 ) , among many others . |
| 13 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 14 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 15 | The observation was pursued and many compounds were examined for activity against viruses in culture , and in infected animals . |
| 16 | Early in the twentieth century , when the success of Ehrlich 's organic compounds had been recognized , organic mercurial compounds were tested as treatments for syphilis . |
| 17 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 18 | Sara 's legs were trembling with exhaustion by the time she reached the stables . |
| 19 | Made of the whole sheepskin , the legs were tied with rings of woven palm leaf . |
| 20 | Battersea group were helped by the neighbouring Lambeth group who ran a stall and the walkers were joined by members from other London groups including Imperial College , Newham and Bayswater . |
| 21 | Political activity was banned and Koreans were subordinated to Japanese at all levels of administrative activity . |
| 22 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |
| 23 | In consultation with the Project Coordinating Team , six schools were selected for study in some depth , two from each of the first three years of the project . |
| 24 | In 1978 , at least a dozen of these schools were attended by protestants in numbers of between 5–20 per cent of the total ( Fulton 1982 ) . |
| 25 | Library schools were noted by 30% of respondents as contributing to their in-service training , usually by the provision of short courses , occasionally with help in preparation of training aids . |
| 26 | Fees in elementary schools were limited to 9d per week . |
| 27 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 28 | He remembers when schools were schools were closed for fear of catastrophic bombing raids in wartime Edinburgh and classes were spread among private houses . |
| 29 | Northern or Southern blot hybridization signals were analysed by densitometry with an Ultroscan laser system ( LKB ) . |
| 30 | Only scattered signals were seen over sections from group C patients ' lungs or normal lungs . |