Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 2 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 3 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 4 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 5 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 6 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 7 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 8 | The first reports of AIDS in the UK were received in London in December 1981 . |
| 9 | She died in the December of that year , joining her husband in the family grave ; many letters of condolence were received by Ernie at Freegrove Road , including one from Cousin Alf Davidge of Cricklewood — the husband of Benjamin James 's daughter , Bessie . |
| 10 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 11 | Apologies ; for absence were received from Mrs. V. Hawkins . |
| 12 | The study yielded a group of forty men who were the most powerful in Atlanta , and these were treated by Hunter as Atlanta 's political elite . |
| 13 | The GCC foreign ministers were joined in Doha on Sept. 9 by their Syrian and Egyptian counterparts for the sixth meeting of the Damascus Declaration states [ see pp. 38116-17 ; 38885 ] . |
| 14 | These allegations were dismissed by Delors on Oct. 15 as " pure slander " . |
| 15 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 16 | We were pressed with Day v. McLea ( ( 1889 ) 22 Q.B.D. 610 ) , where the debtor himself sent a cheque for an amount smaller than that of the debt to the creditor on the terms that it should be in satisfaction of the debt . |
| 17 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 18 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |
| 19 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 21 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 22 | In 1685 five men were hanged at Wareham by order of the infamous Judge Jeffreys for participation in Monmouth 's rebellion . |
| 23 | Harjinder Singh and Sukhdevo Singh , convicted in 1989 [ see p. 37345 ] of killing in 1986 Gen. Arun Vaidya , the former army chief who led the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar , in Punjab [ see pp. 33221-24 ] , were hanged in Pune on Oct. 9 . |
| 24 | As for Pentium 's infamous heat output , Compaq reckons that the original Deskpro/M boxes were designed with Pentium in mind and that the airflow will cope . |
| 25 | Incidents including killings were reported during August as peasants disputed rights to land ownership . |
| 26 | Further violent demonstrations were reported in Douala on Oct. 14 , leaving dozens injured and causing major damage to property . |
| 27 | On Jan. 27 , bombs exploded in Paris and Marseille , causing substantial damage , and attacks were reported in Athens on Jan. 25 and 28 . |
| 28 | Demonstrations against government policy were reported in Aden on Oct. 17 , further heightening tension . |
| 29 | US sanctions introduced in December 1991 against all the Yugoslav republics [ see p. 38684 ] were lifted against Slovenia on Aug. 28 . |
| 30 | As far as police are able to understand they were walking near Tescos in Bletchley when three men burst out of some shrubbery and assaulted them . |