Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1685 five men were hanged at Wareham by order of the infamous Judge Jeffreys for participation in Monmouth 's rebellion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 8 | Its findings : more violent crimes were committed in Oxfordshire per head of the population than anywhere else in Britain . |
| 9 | However , the exciting days of last February and March when the Stars were challenging with Chelmsford for promotion have long been forgotten by the home fans . |
| 10 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 11 | Gangouo 's appointment , and senior military appointments and dismissals on Jan. 14 , were presented by Milongo as part of a restructuring necessary to eliminate tribalism in the military . |
| 12 | The discovery in the quarries of pre-historic footprints of dinosaurs — iguanodon or megalosaurus — has occurred from time to time , notably in 1963 when samples were removed to the British Museum , and again in 1980 when over 30 footprints were uncovered at Townsend during building work . |
| 13 | As the result of information provided by Parot , 17 others were arrested on April 4-5 in south-west France including two other members of the commando , Jacques Esnal and Frederic Haramboure , who had slipped through the Seville roadblock , and a Benedictine monk ; nine were transferred to Paris for interrogation . |
| 14 | Premiums collected in Kenya were transferred to London for reinvestment . |
| 15 | As a result , six separate operations based in north London ( two in Cockfosters , three in Potters Bar and one in Whetstone ) and one in Orpington in Kent were relocated to Stevenage in north Hertfordshire . |
| 16 | The impact of de Gaulle 's words , which were transmitted to Algeria via Radio Monte Carlo and picked up by soldiers on their transistor radios , was again critical . |
| 17 | The poppies were made in France by war victims ' families . |
| 18 | Fibroblasts and KC ( cultured in low-calcium medium ) were detached from culture dishes after incubation in calcium-free HBSS , 2mM EDTA and were washed in HBSS with calcium , stained for cadherins and analysed by flow cytometry . |
| 19 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 20 | Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off . |
| 21 | It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens . |
| 22 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 23 | Neighbouring princes were marching into Aquitaine in order to play their part in what was rapidly developing into a showdown on the scale of 1173–4 . |
| 24 | Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict . |
| 25 | Miners ( who had come to Bucharest once before , in February , to demonstrate their support for the NSF — see p. 37252 ) were brought into Bucharest by truck , train and bus in the early hours of June 14 . |
| 26 | Eight Soviet diplomats were expelled from Norway for espionage according to an announcement of Oct. 21 [ for last such expulsions , in mid-1987 , see p. 36242 ] . |
| 27 | At the very successful Potential Teachers ' Day in July , 29 students were introduced to Medau at training level and were given background information about the syllabus and course structure . |
| 28 | The sewing industry in Saratov reported that its factories were closing in January through lack of demand for its products . |
| 29 | The bodies of Alex Stewart , 28 , and Hugh Stewart , 21 , from Reading , Berkshire , were found on Wednesday at Barley Mow Lane , near St Albans , Hertfordshire . |
| 30 | In the rest of this chapter , I shall argue that options were widened for Charles in part because increasing resources could be tapped within his kingdom . |