Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And mock crosses were erected outside the grounds with our names on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 6 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
| 7 | Besides the inventory of the shop , several stringed instruments and scores of operas by Lully were listed among the contents of Martin 's bedroom . |
| 8 | Both the Dark Age Benedictine monastery and the church were sacked by the Saracens on 10 October 881 AD , as recorded in the twelfth-century Chronicon Vulturnense . |
| 9 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 10 | Shields were propped against the boles of the pines ; broken spears rested by them and helmets , the dull iron helms of the lost legion , had been nailed to the bark . |
| 11 | The notion of violence within an urban context is reinforced by some of the titles although these paintings were completed before the riots on the Meadowell estate , near Chevallier 's studio , erupted . |
| 12 | Leicester , one of the better teams in the division , made only one significant mistake and were mugged of the points by resourceful opponents who did not make any . |
| 13 | Limits were placed on the numbers of doctors registered with the system and drug companies were required to lower prices by 5 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 , and to impose a two-year price freeze . |
| 14 | At the Potsdam conference in July 1945 all the occupation powers agreed to disarm Germany , and limits were placed on the types of goods which German factories could produce , to prevent her regaining any war potential . |
| 15 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 16 | A whole series of technical agreements were also signed ; these were placed under the auspices of the PICAO , and form the technical basis for all civil aviation . |
| 17 | The fact that Western cultures were placed by the anthropologists on the uppermost rungs reflects their ethnocentric perspective ! |
| 18 | Amongst the Phoenicians live infants were placed in the arms of a idol , and died in the flames burning inside it . |
| 19 | Instead , from now on all ‘ heroes ' deaths ’ were placed in the newspapers under a uniform heading at the top of the columns , reading : ‘ For Führer , People , and Reich gave their lives … ’ |
| 20 | Since then , Steve Mason , who did a Victor Kiam and bought the company himself , has masterminded a remarkable recovery job and such recent Top Ten singles as Nomad 's ‘ ( I Wan na Give You ) Devotion ’ and Kylie 's ‘ What Do I Have To Do ’ , were placed in the shops by Pinnacle . |
| 21 | His ashes were placed in the cloisters at New College , Oxford , where they are commemorated by a plaque recording him as ‘ Humanist & Boswellian Scholar ’ . |
| 22 | Other sections give appreciable protection to LCH with regard to collateral security in its hands : eg , s 175 removes from LCH the restrictions on enforcement of security which would otherwise apply , under the Insolvency Act 1986 , in the event that a defaulting member 's affairs were placed in the hands of an administrator ; and s 177 allows collateral lodged with LCH to be realised and applied notwithstanding a prior equitable interest or right of which LCH did not have notice at the time the collateral was received . |
| 23 | A typical example of this was the subject of Saltman Engineering Co v Campbell Engineering Co ( 1963 ) 65 RPC 203 where drawings of tools for the manufacture of leather punches were placed in the hands of subcontractors for the purpose of manufacturing the tools for one of the plaintiffs . |
| 24 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 25 | Throughout the 1650s , extreme restrictions were placed upon the activities of individuals on Sundays ; a strict Puritan sabbath was imposed , and all working , sports , and non-essential travel were made illegal . |
| 26 | Now both dogs were fastened to the pipes by heavy chains that rattled each time they moved . |
| 27 | Where the narrow alleys crossed and re-crossed , street names were fastened to the walls at just above head-height , but without light she was unable to read them , and there was n't a soul about to ask . |
| 28 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 29 | ‘ And the girls were given to the priests by their families when they were ten or eleven years old . ’ |
| 30 | Earlier in the year the awards were given to the winners of the Swan Stabilo/Arguati Disappearing Britain competition . |