Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 2 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 3 | His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger , at this open display of contempt . |
| 4 | Heighington Slide show : Villagers in Heighington were entertained recently with a slide show given by John Bennington . |
| 5 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 6 | These results were confirmed when patients with Barrett 's oesophagus were compared separately as a group with patients without Barrett 's oesophagus using the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 7 | For a band that was formed because four teenagers were blown away by a Wedding Present gig in Oxford they still have a lot to learn from their masters . |
| 8 | Subjects were tested individually in a session lasting approximately 90 minutes . |
| 9 | WHEN Germany 's politicians agreed in March on a ‘ solidarity pact ’ to help pay the cost of unification , their eyes were fixed dreamily on a distant future . |
| 10 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 11 | Higher normality ratings were correlated significantly with a bias in favour of ‘ Yes ’ responses . |
| 12 | The idea of providing proper station buildings was not forgotten , however , in 1988 , planning began in the hope of attracting grant aid and alternative designs were put forward for a new building . |
| 13 | Her lips were curved slightly in a mild , private smile . |
| 14 | Kurunagala , the centre of the Northern Band , remained an economic backwater in the 1860s , but in the late 1880s and 1890s coconut plantations were established there on a large scale . |
| 15 | Hybrids armed with lasguns were pressing hard against a picket line of planetary guardsmen . |
| 16 | Rats were pretreated subcutaneously with a total dose of 125 mg/kg capsaicin 14 days before the experiments . |
| 17 | The rats were anaesthetised either by a subcutaneous injection of urethane ( 1.5 g/kg ) or an intraperitoneal injection of sodium phenobarbital ( 0.23 g/kg ) . |
| 18 | It is thanks to these men of ability and vision that the deaf communities in Britain became so well established and respected , and that the deaf communities were drawn together into a national movement which after a false start exists to this day in the British Deaf Association . |
| 19 | Sacks of corn were piled loosely against a wall ; three sheep had wandered in from the nearby pasture and had not been expelled ; there was a rank smell from underfoot . |
| 20 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 21 | But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind ; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history , by ties of marriage and settlement , and by the trade that they conducted with each other . |
| 22 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 23 | That study and other environmental studies commissioned by the Cardiff Bay development corporation and South Glamorgan county council were brought together in a detailed environmental impact assessment by Liverpool university . |
| 24 | Those early days of marriage were lived modestly in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham , South London . |
| 25 | Until about 1780 these expectations were met largely by a relief system which was " generous , flexible and humane " . |
| 26 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 27 | The jaws of the peg were held apart by a stub of pencil . |
| 28 | MORE THAN 350 oil workers were airlifted ashore by a fleet of helicopters last night from an accommodation vessel adrift in the North Sea . |
| 29 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 30 | NIGEL LAWSON 'S problems with the Tory conference were aggravated yesterday by a scathing front-page attack in the pro-Tory Daily Mail . |