Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 2 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 3 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 6 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 7 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 8 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 9 | Further practical steps were taken following the second amendment to make the SDR ‘ the principal reserve asset ’ : |
| 10 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 11 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 12 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 13 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 14 | The fate of the earlier Halling registers is not known but some of the early entries were copied in the 19th century by Sir Thorn as Colyer Ferguson . |
| 15 | After 34 minutes , Dulwich were presented with a third goal . |
| 16 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 17 | Revenue was up , expenditure too and some young trees , notably 30 birches and limes were planted between the 12th and 14th , also the ‘ plantation ’ ( now a copse ) between the 14th and 15th , and the bushes behind the 2nd , plus many others . |
| 18 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 19 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |
| 20 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 21 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 22 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 23 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
| 24 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 25 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 26 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 27 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 28 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 29 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 30 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |