Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were lost in the violent pounding from the east . |
| 2 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 3 | His words were lost in the sudden explosion which took the front off Police Headquarters . |
| 4 | Stok crossed his arms across his face and began to pull his shirt off , and his words were lost beneath the white cotton . |
| 5 | The words were written by the tubercular vicar of All Saints , Lower Brixham , the Rev H F Lyte ( 1793–1847 ) , during his last months of illness . |
| 6 | The fewest words were recalled with the random word order and the greatest number with correct word order . |
| 7 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 8 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 9 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 10 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 11 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 12 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 13 | The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 . |
| 14 | Guidelines were introduced by the then Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , with effect from June 1 , 1990 , under which Cabinet ministers , ministers outside the Cabinet and parliamentary under-secretaries were required to disclose their financial interests within four weeks of taking office and annually thereafter . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the mutated oligonucleotides were unable to compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences , even when a 500 molar excess of competitor was used ( data not shown ) , reinforcing the conclusion that the protein-DNA complexes were mediated by the mutated guanine residues . |
| 16 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 17 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 18 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 19 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 20 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 21 | In 1984 over seven million compounds were documented in the chemical literature . |
| 22 | The recent spate of such thefts ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.16 ) continued when one marble and sixteen classical terracotta figurines were taken from the Schimatari Museum in Boeotia , central Greece , on the night of 24 December . |
| 23 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 24 | Her own legs were dappled with the pale primrose of iodine . |
| 25 | It then dawned on them that maybe sea legs were required for the following morning . |
| 26 | I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms . |
| 27 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 28 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 29 | Both lists were formed from the Medical Research Council Psycholinguistic Database ( Wilson , 1987 ) by excluding repetitions , rare usages , plurals and derived forms . |
| 30 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |