Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scores of meticulously labelled tins containing sub-assembly fixings were stacked at the rear of the workshop . |
| 2 | Two open wooden crates , piled high with computer keyboards , were stacked against the wall outside the headmaster 's study . |
| 3 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 4 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 5 | The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London . |
| 6 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 8 | The oldest artistic castings so far known in Nigeria were excavated around the beginning of 1960 , on behalf of the Nigerian Department of Antiquities , by Thurstan Shaw at Igbo Ukwu in the south-east . |
| 9 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 10 | Some of the images were traced to an account by an author on Kashmir , and some to another one of Florida by a different author . |
| 11 | In days of yore , such places were spattered with the blood of sacrificial victims to ensure good fortune in battle , and dunters are thought to be the spirits of these unhappy people . |
| 12 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 13 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
| 14 | Party leaders should consider taking the major drug companies into public ownership so that their products were developed on the basis of need rather than profit . |
| 15 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 16 | They were developed after the merger of Siemens and Nixdorf when Siemens acquired Targon . |
| 17 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 18 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 19 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 20 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 21 | And mock crosses were erected outside the grounds with our names on . |
| 22 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 23 | The first AA telephone boxes were erected on the Ashford to Hythe ( Kent ) road in July 1912 . |
| 24 | The two lancet windows were erected to the memory of Rev. Jonah Nalson who was Vicar of Halling for thirty three years . |
| 25 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 26 | Giant posters measuring 16ft by 8ft were erected by the army at the entrance to Ormeau Park in another desperate attempt to jog someone 's memory . |
| 27 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 28 | It will be apparent that we were fascinated by the phenomenon of crofting , as we presume most other newcomers to it must be . |
| 29 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 30 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |