Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 2 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
| 3 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the dealers who were gathered with him at the wine bar succeeded in changing his mind . |
| 5 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 6 | Abuse and scorn were heaped upon it with an intensity of attack that I can not remember experiencing previously in my political career . |
| 7 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 8 | The court heard the shift supervisor at Three Mile Island change his testimony on the crucial relief-valve temperatures that were reported to him during the incident . |
| 9 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 10 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 11 | Some cases , the easy ones , were solved by it like an intellectual puzzle . |
| 12 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Instead , the architects , McKay and Forresters , of Glasgow , were presented with it at the Edinburgh reception . |
| 14 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 15 | Palmer 's views were shared by the other Northern Residents who , early in his career as Lieutenant-Governor , were organized by him into an effective pressure group known as the Conference of Residents . |
| 16 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 17 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 18 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 19 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 20 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 21 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 22 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 23 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 24 | They were handed to him by a tiny nut-brown man in a red fez , who also sold little packets of sugared almonds and pistachios . |
| 25 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 26 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 27 | CTL were detected to none of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , but three out of six individuals tested responded to the ls6 peptide from LSA-1 ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 28 | The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 . |
| 29 | S1 always stood out as a unit and these boys , who were always together , were known by everybody in the sample . |
| 30 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |