Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 2 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 3 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 4 | Amongst the curiosities was a series of Tradescant portraits , which were hung on the gallery walls . |
| 5 | Then the body was butchered and the heart was handed on a silver salver to one duchess , while the entrails were handed in a silver bowl to another . |
| 6 | Scoring : A the end of the 50 experimental trials , all reaction times were crossed out the response sheet for incorrect answers , excluding them from further analysis . |
| 7 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 8 | Indictments on fraud charges were brought in the United States ( i ) on July 1 against Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz , chief operating officer of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia ; ( ii ) on July 29 against Clark Clifford ( US Defence Secretary in 1968-69 ) and Robert Altman ; and ( iii ) on Sept. 17 against William Batastini , Ghaith Pharaon , Tariq Jamil and Swaleh Naqvi [ see also pp. 38569 ; 38737 ] . |
| 9 | Although criminal proceedings were brought in the Alexander Howden case , no prosecutions have followed the PCW affair where $50 million was siphoned away from Lloyds ' investors , and related underwriting losses were estimated at 230 million . |
| 10 | To the west of the Ticino lay the high Alps , and those entering Italy from that direction were funnelled down the Aosta valley towards Mediolanum . |
| 11 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 12 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 13 | No , that was picked out the history book |
| 14 | On January 1 , 1982 , Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad . |
| 15 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 16 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 18 | The developers have already demonstrated their disregard both for the environment and for planning regulations by commencing landscaping and tree-felling operations before the planning application was approved Both the Durham Wildlife Trust and English Nature have expressed concerns regarding the future of this woodland , but have been ignored . |
| 19 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 20 | Others are less clear without some explanation : an attacker was known as ‘ the Bizarre Beast ’ because of the strange clothing he wore , which included a gas mask and a dress ( Star ) ; however , no explanation was needed why a sex fiend who struck near a university for the second time in four days was known as ‘ The Balaclava Rapist ’ ( Sun ) . |
| 21 | Fund-raising for renovation of the crumbling ceiling above the stage raised £44,000 but more work was needed so the Theatre Trust handed over £1,500 towards repairs . |
| 22 | I think if the end user was known then the end user is perfectly capable of submitting a planning application . |
| 23 | The 16-year-old was pulled off the 50cc Yamaha , pushed to the ground and kicked before two men and a women escaped on her bike . |
| 24 | 1,1,1 was brought in the Montreal Protocol negotiations later than tetra , but here , too , the UK government wants an early phaseout — by 1 January 1996 if possible . |
| 25 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 26 | Late in 1851 he became rector of Wyke Regis , Dorset , but he was appointed also a city lecturer at St Martin 's , Carfax , requiring occasional duty in Oxford . |
| 27 | He was educated privately and , from 1868 , at Pembroke College , Oxford , where he read classics but was awarded only a pass degree , graduating BA in 1872 . |
| 28 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
| 29 | Action was taken on the poll tax . |
| 30 | The flexible Doppler probe ( 1.6 mm in diameter ) was passed down the biopsy channel of the endoscope and was positioned under direct vision over the lesion . |