Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words were written down by recorders , whom she sometimes exhorted to write faster to keep pace with her . |
| 2 | Byelorussian Premier Vyacheslav Kebich addressed the crowd and declared his government 's willingness to negotiate , but his words were drowned out by jeers and whistling . |
| 3 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 4 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 5 | ‘ An American oddball who , like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee , takes a sideways look at his own culture , Whit Stillman has directed a film so sharp and amusing that film-goers were shut out in droves from its many screenings in Cannes . |
| 6 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 7 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 8 | Those provinces were excepted out of deference to Russian sensibilities . |
| 9 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 10 | Each line and each verse of a song started as the left foot hit the ground , and with each particular song a different number of steps were left in between verses . |
| 11 | All electroporation steps were carried out at 4°C . |
| 12 | in the ‘ balanced aquarium ’ system , the nitrogen compounds produced by the fish 's metabolism were taken up by plants , and nitrate levels in the water would be kept low . |
| 13 | On a similar subject , THAT PETROL EMOTION were held up in Derry ( the place , not the EMF sex-god ) last week . |
| 14 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 15 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 16 | In the city 's markets Uzbek traders were beaten up by Kirghiz students . |
| 17 | But as the recession bit and shopping habits changed , many traders were forced out of business . |
| 18 | Small boys in grey shirts and pants and red ties were wandering around in groups . |
| 19 | Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still . |
| 20 | Erm most have , in fact most of which is er b er seventy four additional heads were put on in March , so we 've gone from seventeen twenty three to seventeen ninety seven erm and Mick accounted for most of those with forty four . |
| 21 | The waves were whipped up like ice-cream and frothing like champagne and there was no one else out . |
| 22 | The State Department had already decided that if the Jews were turned down by Cuba , they would not be granted entry into the United States . |
| 23 | There were Jewish communities of some size in Sicyon , Sparta , Delos , Gos and Rhodes in the second part of the second century B.C. In 139 B.C. Jews were thrown out of Rome for obnoxious religious propaganda ( Valerius Maximus 1.3.3 ) . |
| 24 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 25 | The year was 1956 and teenagers were hatching out into fashion peacocks , no longer content to follow blindly in the footsteps of their sober-suited parents . |
| 26 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 27 | Grand prix motor cars were painted up like buses to advertise cigarettes and even contraceptives . |
| 28 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 29 | Drivers were ordered out at gunpoint . |
| 30 | Her eyes were looking out to sea . |