Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 2 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 3 | Those units were joined in the latter part of the 1980s in a rationalisation plan . |
| 4 | For this reason the constables of many royal castles were appointed at the same time to be wardens of neighbouring forests : the constable of Rockingham castle was usually warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ; the constable of Porchester kept Bere Porchester Forest ; the constable of Devizes kept Chippenham and Melksham Forests ; the constable of St Briavels the Forest of Dean ; the constable of Castleton the Forest of the Peak ; and the constable of Windsor castle was also warden of Windsor Forest . |
| 5 | Acid , pepsin , and sialic acid outputs were determined under the same conditions . |
| 6 | A further 36,000 teenage pregnancies were aborted in the same year ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 8 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 9 | Most of the ex-municipal cars were accommodated in the former part , but Walthamstow and the three companies were given numbers in the 20005 above the highest L.C.C . |
| 10 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 11 | Subjects were studied at the same time of day on four occasions at least seven days apart . |
| 12 | I do n't want to document my thesis at length , but Slovak conflict with Czechs , Croat conflict with Serbs , could not exist before 1918 when these peoples were put into the same states . |
| 13 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 14 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 15 | Thousands of their supporters were charged with the same offence . |
| 16 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 17 | The enumerations were performed by the same investigator ( LH ) throughout the study . |
| 18 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 19 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 20 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 21 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 22 | As the Zechstein progressed , the thickest part of each successive lens developed further into the basin and the facies belts were displaced in the same direction ( Figs. 3 and 4 ) . |
| 23 | To the extent that spiritual and temporal functions were united in the same house , by the same blood , the union would be doubly consecrated , doubly sanctified , and the unity of the nation all the more hallowed . |
| 24 | Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously . |
| 25 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 26 | About halfway between Venice and the modern city of Trieste there is another island lagoon formation at Grado , where settlements were established at the same time as those in the Venetian lagoon . |
| 27 | This indicates that the two denominations were minted in the same part of his reign . |
| 28 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 29 | Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals . |
| 30 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |