Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
2 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
3 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
4 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
5 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
6 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
7 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
8 | Phylogenetic trees based on the nucleic acid sequences of introns inserted at the identical position as intron 1 of the LSUrRNA gene from P.wickerhamii were calculated with a maximum parsimony program ( 36 ) , a maximum likelihood and a neighbour joining program ( 35 ) . |
9 | All four of the white Los Angeles police officers , whose acquittal in the Rodney King beating case sparked several days of rioting in the city in late April and early May [ see p. 38894 ] , were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 4 on federal charges of violating King 's civil rights . |
10 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
11 | Pieces of buttered toast were arranged in a regular pattern on a silver dish — four slices awaiting their crowning with four perfect eggs . |
12 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
13 | The shimmering folds of the nets were arranged in a looping canopy above where the musicians played , and effected a startling , glowing paleness in the untidy gloom of the attic . |
14 | The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys . |
15 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
16 | In yet another demonstration of Yugoslavia 's fragmentation along ethnic lines , hostility between Serbs and Moslems ( who were recognized as a distinct nationality in Yugoslavia ) led to clashes in Bosnia-Hercegovina 's southern town of Foca , and across the nearby border in Serbia 's Novi Pazar district ( part of the historic Sanjak region ) . |
17 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
18 | All patients were sedated with a bolous dose of midazolam ( 2–5 mg ) and received 40 mg hyoscine butylbromide ( Buscopan ) intravenously before the procedure . |
19 | After a 16 hour fast , rats ( n=16/treatment group ) were sedated by an intramuscular injection of 0.1 ml Hypnorm ( fentanyl citrate 0.315 mg/ml , fluanisone 10 mg/ml ; Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd , Oxford , UK ) and 0.25 mg diazepam . |
20 | By the second century B.C. they were experimenting with a volcanic earth found near Vesuvius and named pozzolana after the town of Pozzuoli there . |
21 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
22 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
23 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
24 | It was not until 1923 that the sexes , on this ground , were placed on an equal footing . |
25 | Willie sat on a chair as his feet were placed into a measuring gauge . |
26 | If the cells were placed as a solid clump in the sandwich , induction was good and many of the cells developed into muscle ; but if the cells were placed in the sandwich as a thin single layer no muscle cells developed . |
27 | Subconfluent monolayers remained attached to coverslips , which were placed in a small chamber ( vol 2 ml ) and visualised on the stage of a Nikon ( Diaphot ) inverted microscope with Hoffmann modulated optics ( ×400 magnification ) . |
28 | They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all , facing the outgoing tide . |
29 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
30 | Most of the civilians , eventually totalling some 6,000 , were placed in a separate camp next to the main military encampment at Viktring . |