Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hersant — later the ‘ bete noir ’ of many French journalists , and the press baron whom the socialists love to hate -was condemned for activities during the occupation as a collaborator in late 1945 and lost his civic rights . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’ |
| 3 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 4 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 5 | From that time , a long series of rigorous studies were developed in cognizance of the methodological problems , many of the recent ones using the WFS surveys and computerized data processing and analytical techniques ( see for example , Wray , 1971 ; Fedrick and Adelstein , 1973 ; Wolfers and Scrimshaw , 1975 ; Spiers and Wang , 1976 ; Gray , 1981 ; Baldion , 1981 ; Swenson , 1981 ; Carlaw and Vaidya , 1983 ; Fortney and Higgins , 1983 ; Hobcraft , et al , 1983 ; Martin et al , 1983 ; Cleland and Sathar , 1984 ; De Sweemer , 1984 ; Palloni and Tienda , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 7 | Three small black kids had gathered around Armstrong 's bonnet and were gazing in wonder at the gently vibrating engine . |
| 8 | At home the television reports were prefaced with warnings about the shocking content to give viewers the option of switching off . |
| 9 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 10 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 11 | The CIs for the rate ratios were calculated by means of a formula for determining the confidence interval of the ratio of two normal means . |
| 12 | The photographs were arranged behind glass in a small anteroom above the door of which was printed the legend : ‘ The Martyrs of Hama ’ . |
| 13 | The waxworks were arranged in groups beyond a rope , which was supposed to separate them from their admirers . |
| 14 | The hon. and learned Gentleman makes much of forecasts that he claims were arranged in line with the timing of a possible general election . |
| 15 | Margaret , daughter of the illustrious Lord Florent Count of Holland and Mathilde , daughter of Henri Duke of Brabant , Sister of William , King of Germany , being forty-two years of age , was delivered on the Friday before Easter , at nine o'clock in the morning , in the year 1276 , of 365 babies male and female which ( in the presence of several great lords and gentlemen ) were arranged in front of the font and were all baptized by a bishop , the males being christened the same name , namely Jean , and the females Elizabeth . |
| 16 | The two men were remanded in custody for a week . |
| 17 | Paul Andrew Weddle , of Southend Road , Gateshead , and the 15-year-old boy were remanded in custody for a week by the town 's magistrates . |
| 18 | They were remanded in custody until a week on Wednesday . |
| 19 | Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner . |
| 20 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 21 | Malaria was known to be associated with marshes : it was often called marsh fever , but the connection was not understood until certain mosquitoes were recognized as carriers of the disease and as alternative hosts of plasmodia . |
| 22 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |
| 23 | Reservoirs at Sulby and Naseby , both in valleys of feeders to the Avon , were completed as part of the main construction programme in 1914 and 1921 respectively ; the head of Naseby was raised in 1934 and ‘ New Sulby ’ , better known as Welford Reservoir , came into use in 1837 . |
| 24 | Applied geology mapping Engineering geological interpretations of the soils and rocks of the Wrexham and Stoke-on-Trent areas were completed as part of the applied geological mapping of these areas for the Department of the Environment . |
| 25 | The first launch was made on January 26th 1944 and the remainder were completed at Leith by a workforce of 600 men . |
| 26 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 27 | Translations in ‘ latin ’ languages like Spanish and Italian were completed in time for the promulgation of the test by the Holy Father on December 7th last year . |
| 28 | His grandfather was Hugh Ronald , brother of Jean and Ann , who were immortalised by Burns in the poem The Ronalds of the Bennals . |
| 29 | Ten of the 16 quarter-finalists were checked for drugs during the World Open in October and proved negative . |
| 30 | Prasad Pillai , secretary of the International Squash Rackets Federation , said 10 of the 16 quarter-finalists were checked for drugs during the World Open in Kuala Lumpur in October . |