Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words were lost in the sound of grinding gears , and the car leaped away from the sidewalk , knocking Mrs Frizzell 's hat askew and leaving her mouthing furiously at nobody . |
| 2 | ’ But then he opened the door , and his words were lost in the wind . |
| 3 | The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli . |
| 4 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 5 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 6 | Words were exchanged between the comic and Holiday , said Mr McCartney . |
| 7 | In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 . |
| 8 | Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers . |
| 9 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 10 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 11 | As noted above , Aristo argued , by analogy with the way in which the words were interpreted in the case of a legacy of dowry and in stipulations on sale of an inheritance , and bearing in mind the testator 's intention , that the words should be taken to include non-pecuniary dispositions . |
| 12 | Words were spoken over the bread and wine . |
| 13 | Successors were appointed at the end of October 1989 to the heads of Italy 's two largest state enterprises , Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale ( IRI ) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ( ENI ) . |
| 14 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 15 | On repetition of this analysis with greater amounts of I9X extract , faint protein:DNA complexes were detected with the gene 62 promoter BT probe ( data not shown ) . |
| 16 | The specific complexes were excised from the gel , the DNA was treated with piperidine and separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis . |
| 17 | Only members have the duty to comply with decisions of the Security Council , or to make available armed forces to the Security Council , but the maintenance of global peace and security and the peaceful settlement of international disputes would be prejudiced if non-members were excluded from the dispute resolution processes of the United Nations . |
| 18 | Vesicles were prepared by the method of Chobanian . |
| 19 | The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml . |
| 20 | Backstage at the Brixton Academy two fans were kicked to the ground while attempting to gain admittance to the dressing room . |
| 21 | Several Sunderland fans were escorted from the ground after running on the pitch when their team scored the winning goal . |
| 22 | Below Marginal glaciofluvial terraces and out-wash fans were formed during the decay of late-Devensian ice within the valley of the River Findhorn , Nairnshire . |
| 23 | Two new military compounds were constructed in the centre of the town and south of the same street ; their enclosing walls respected the existing temples . |
| 24 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 25 | The cylinders were left on the line betweenWroughton and Wootton Bassett , immediately opposite a council-run gypsy site . |
| 26 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 27 | Shortly after her death , terrifying screams were heard from the staircase where she died . |
| 28 | Some at least of the Knossos ivory figurines were made in the workshop beside the Royal Road . |
| 29 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 30 | When pulled tight it effectively secured her to the bench , and as it passed behind her knees , so her legs were strapped in the position where her feet were above her head . |