Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 2 | In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure . |
| 3 | As a result of exposure by Greenpeace , vessels were refused entry by harbourmasters and port managers . |
| 4 | This has been supported by tests : when a group of subjects was shown pictures of chocolate cake , they salivated ; pictures of broccoli , however , had no effect at all . |
| 5 | Participating countries were allocated SDRs in proportion to their quotas , these allocations being known as their ‘ net cumulative allocations ’ . |
| 6 | On the various shelves were set items of laboratory equipment : retorts , beakers , distilling tubes and burners . |
| 7 | At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company . |
| 8 | In addition , at last years AGM , the directors were given authority under Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 , until the conclusion of the 1993 AGM , to allot equity securities for cash , other than to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings , up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,234,276 being equal to 5% of the then issued ordinary share capital . |
| 9 | January 1936 : In South Wales , particularly in the Rhonda Valley the tramp of thousands of feet was heard day after day . |
| 10 | Under the terms of the Honiara accord the rebels were given immunity from prosecution , together with the promises that the government would remove its blockade and would not attempt to re-establish its troops upon the island by force . |
| 11 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 12 | Additionally , through development control powers , the granting of planning permission for buildings was made conditional upon provision of parking spaces , particularly significant for central area commercial development . |
| 13 | A total of 118 British firms were granted awards for export achievement this year ; 25 were rewarded for technological achievement ; 12 won awards for Environmental correctness . |
| 14 | If the figures were shown year on year , other variations would appear too . |
| 15 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 16 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 17 | Suited bodies were thrown head over heel . |
| 18 | Patients who denied any symptoms , or who gave a history of a single episode of self-limiting dyspeptic symptoms were also excluded from gastrscopic examination , but all other patients were offered gastroscopy as outpatients . |
| 19 | ( All the great religious teachers were born East of Suez ! ) |
| 20 | Some of the best specimens of trunks were preserved cell by cell in silica , and these show even the finest details if they are cut and polished . |
| 21 | Its planning figures up to 1980–1 were endorsed , the CATs were authorized to appoint Academic Advisory Committees to advise on how best to obtain university status and to assist in the planning of their future development , the CNAA was established in 1964 , and the teacher training colleges were renamed Colleges of Education and were encouraged to work with the universities to introduce the new BEd degree . |
| 22 | A smart mobile caravan began to tour the area with a reassuring message of safety and reliability , an information shop opened in Bridgwater , and 35,000 full colour newspapers were delivered door to door . |
| 23 | In 1701 by the Act of Settlement Catholics were debarred from the English succession , and Sophia and her heirs were named heirs to William III and Anne . |
| 24 | Around the frames were hung walls of lath and plaster , with the upper storeys occasionally protected by hung tiles , and the roofs covered in the same materials or , in some cases , with Horsham Slate . |
| 25 | Tigers were declared vermin in China in the 1950s , and were slaughtered in droves not just because they were dangerous but also because they were valuable . |
| 26 | From 1880–1969 four Willses and one of their adopted sons were elected Members of Parliament : one Liberal Home Ruler , two Unionists and two Conservatives . |
| 27 | The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects . |
| 28 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 29 | This was almost his last work and was carried out whilst he was the guest of an English merchant , Thomas Poyntz , in the shelter of the English house at Antwerp , where the English merchants were accorded privileges of freedom from arrest on mere suspicion , and from imprisonment without trial . |
| 30 | In one experiment birds were given choices between members of the opposite sex that were either familiar siblings , novel siblings , novel first-cousins , novel third-cousins , or novel unrelated individuals . |