Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 2 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 3 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 4 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 5 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 6 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 7 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 8 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 9 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 10 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 11 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 12 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 13 | The institutions of Roman civil law were bound up with the rigid observance of strict form ; trusts were not , the textbooks say . |
| 14 | Wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green were folded back against the walls to show thick , beautifully patterned lace at the windows . |
| 15 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 16 | Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair . |
| 17 | At that first hearing in Orkney , on the seventh day after the removal of their children , the allegations of lewd and libidinous behaviour with ritual music and dance were read out to the stunned parents . |
| 18 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 19 | ‘ All the stained glass windows at the front of the bar were blown in by the blast . |
| 20 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 21 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 22 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
| 23 | The nails on the hand clutching the pen were bitten down to the quick — always a sign of savagery . |
| 24 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 25 | A further irritant had occurred earlier in the month when talks scheduled for Aug. 17 to create a joint Korean Olympic team were called off by the North . |
| 26 | The team were sitting round in a semi-circle when she was introduced to them — although no one gave her a chair , or at least one with her name on it . |
| 27 | The two restored to Christian commitment and active church membership were brought back through the testimony of their teenage son and daughter . |
| 28 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 29 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 30 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |