Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 46 years after its fiery end , the remains of Spitfire R6644 were excavated by the Malvern Spitfire Team , the parts restored and a memorial to the pilot erected . |
| 2 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
| 3 | The objectives would be achieved more readily ‘ if courses were developed on a unit basis ’ . |
| 4 | It was against expectations and conceptions such as these that two of the early surveys were developed in the United States — the market research survey and the pre-election poll . |
| 5 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 6 | The march eventually reached its destination but , on the same night , barricades were erected against an RUC raid on the Bogside . |
| 7 | Vehicle barriers , as requested by ELDC , were erected around the car park area where the main compound is sited and around part of the reinstated area of MH28 — Summit MH . |
| 8 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 9 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 10 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 11 | Reporters were fascinated by the methods ICI uses to monitor the effects of chemicals in the air , on the ground and in rivers , lakes and seas . |
| 12 | Chi-squared , Fisher 's exact , Student 's t , and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to detect significant differences among vaccine groups ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for proportions were calculated on a logit scale and converted to the original scale , and 95% CIs for GMTs were calculated with the method of normal approximation . |
| 13 | Survival curves of the three histological groups were analysed according to the Kaplan and Meier method and the differences between these curves were calculated with the Mantle test . |
| 14 | Raw data were used and geometric means and 95% confidence intervals were calculated with the confidence interval analysis ( CIA ) statistical package . |
| 15 | Absorption and secretion rates in the test segment were calculated from the perfusion rate and the changes in polyethylene glycol and electrolyte concentrations . |
| 16 | On oxyntic tissue sections , argyrophil endocrine cells ( mainly ECL cells ) were stinaed with the Grimelius silver impregnation technique . |
| 17 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 18 | Even greater passions were aroused by a spy case of absolutely no strategic significance whatever , the case of Alger Hiss , who was finally jailed in January 1950 , after two years of allegation and wild rumour . |
| 19 | His meetings were arranged by the World Council of Churches which is one of the few non-government organisations represented in the country . |
| 20 | Pastel walls formed a tasteful background to a selection of mounted Sara Moon prints , fresh flowers were arranged in a crystal vase , and there was a pink shade on the small desk lamp . |
| 21 | LOW PRICES were realised at the Rick Cole Reno Auction on September 18/19 . |
| 22 | More generally in relation to external dealings , the advantages which the City of London possesses as a major international financial centre were listed by the Wilson Committee : its historical role as centre of the pax Britannica economica ; its geographical position close to Europe and between America and Asia ; the overlap of its working day with those of both Europe and Asia ; political stability ; a high degree of integrity ; a flexible regulatory system ; a concentration of ancillary and cognate services ; and the universality of the English language . |
| 23 | This set off a major rebellion in which Russian settlements were sacked with a death toll of over 2,500 . |
| 24 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 25 | Very soon , however , his natural good looks were recognized by a film producer , and by 1919 he had appeared in three short silent dramas , despite a casting card reading ‘ does not screen well ’ . |
| 26 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 27 | The final six tournaments in the 32 event an Challenge were completed during the Easter school holidays at venues throughout the country . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many dwellings for general needs housing were completed in the Monmouth constituency by Monmouth borough council and by housing associations in 1981 and 1991 . |
| 29 | Although all the steps ( a ) to ( d ) were completed by the balance sheet date , some would argue that as the redundancy costs are to be incurred in the next year , they are not liabilities that should be recognised in the current year 's accounts . |
| 30 | The key messages of our submission to DTI were publicised in the AEA Times bulletin . |