Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 4 | And , for as long as the robots of science fact were limited to the assembly lines of the automotive and a few other manufacturing industries , our general perception of the robot was unlikely to change . |
| 5 | Fears that Steffi Graf 's foot injury was worse than first thought , were allayed after the defending women 's champion put in six hours of practice at Wimbledon on Saturday then practised for two hours yesterday at a club in west London . |
| 6 | Many other people who were flooded stayed with relatives and friends ; More than 800 calls were received by the emergency services following the floods , with the Territorial Army Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 called in to help cope ; It was estimated that the cost of repairing damaged roads alone will run to £1m . |
| 7 | 145 were treated with the nicotine patches and 144 with placebo patches for 16 weeks . |
| 8 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 9 | The sunken panels or coffers used by the Romans as decoration were formed between the brick ribs or cut into the solid concrete . |
| 10 | Birds were singing in the garden trees . |
| 11 | They were joined in the lunch hours by Mr Bruce of Standard Life who is the record expert . |
| 12 | Saucy hats were favoured by the factory girls , and saucy lights danced in their eyes as van drivers or cart drivers whistled at them . |
| 13 | There were bars and food counters for the general public , but they were outclassed by the hospitality units . |
| 14 | By the time the pop charts were dominated by the girl groups of the '60s , the split was n't as apparent . |
| 15 | There were 140 parcels , of which only forty-seven were occupied by the head tenants , the remainder being in the hands of subtenants . |
| 16 | Aberknowe was one of several substantial granite houses on the Balmoral land which were occupied by the estate managers . |
| 17 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 18 | In the UK , the bulk of those cities and towns that performed well between 1971 and 1981 , when assessed by such indicators as employment growth and unemployment , were located in the growth regions of the south of England . |
| 19 | Most reported crimes were brought before police courts , many of which were located in the plantation areas of the Central Province ( Map 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | Whatever the Navy 's intentions , their shells were landing in the Commando positions and causing some havoc . |
| 21 | The Commission 's president , five vice-presidents and commissioners were nominated by the member governments but were supposedly loyal to the EEC itself and had departments created under them , just like a government . |
| 22 | The first were carried from the Maldive fisheries by Arab traders and reached West Africa by way of the Red Sea or Zanzibar , crossing the continent overland . |
| 23 | THE POLICE organisers of the Mersey raft race were blasted today after one man was taken to hospital and several others were rescued by the emergency services . |
| 24 | Preliminary results were reported to the study communities , the district and regional health services , and the Ministry of Health of Ghana within 4 months of the end of data collection . |
| 25 | No townships which demonstrated ‘ very low ’ opioid use were included in the snowball samples as these were invariably small villages in largely rural settings . |
| 26 | In addition maternal and paternal asthma were included in the regression analyses and did not modify the association between independent and dependent variables . |
| 27 | And what if we were caught in the exit chimneys in a storm like the one the day before , stranded without head torches ? |
| 28 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 29 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 30 | Tissington 's workmen were installed in the Forge Houses as reasonable boarding was not available . |