Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 2 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 3 | Where among the fathers there had been one representative each of gamekeeper , watchman , pilot , none of these trades was represented among the husbands : instead there were one each of policeman , teacher , minister of religion , prison warder and two farmers : occupations entirely absent from the list of fathers . |
| 4 | A large-scale exploration effort for new reserves was to begin under the terms of a TT$300,000,000 agreement reached in November 1989 between the US company Exxon , the French company Total and the state-owned companies , Trintoc and Trintopec . |
| 5 | During the early 1980s , expenditure on the grands projets in Paris was so large that from 1980 to 1983 less than one-fifth of central government funds was going to the provinces . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the safety of the solutions was improved over the findings of the 1984 evaluation : only 0.4% — 10.9% of solutions tested between early 1987 and early 1989 were found to have a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l , as compared with 14.7% — 25.6% found in 1984 . |
| 7 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |
| 8 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 9 | The constricted room for manoeuvre that Friedman had been prepared to assign to monetary ( but not fiscal ) policy in affecting real variables was repudiated in the writings of the new classical school . |
| 10 | A report on the case involving the removal of the nine South Ronaldsay children from their homes was sent by the police to the Procurator Fiscal in Wick . |
| 11 | But already a fresh wave of sepoys was pouring over the ramparts and bounding forward to the attack over that rubbery carpet of bodies . |
| 12 | But the gratitude of pro-Market backbenchers was offset by the assurances she offered to anti-Marketeers like Tory Jonathan Aitken , and Labour 's Peter Shore . |
| 13 | In the temporal priority condition , one of the blocks moved before the other block , but the string which connected the two blocks was screened from the children 's view . |
| 14 | The President knew well that Diem 's rule was both repressive and corrupt , but the idea of an alternative government made up of members of the opposition National Liberation Front ( NLF ) and including some Communists was rejected by the Americans . |
| 15 | This was to be laid out in 3% consols in the names of the Trustees , and a general increase of their subscriptions was recommended to the subscribers . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't have noticed if the Crahn Jewels was thrown into the kidneys . ’ |
| 17 | This year on Trinity Sunday , a candle-lighting ceremony with music , poetry , banners and balloons was held on the steps of St Martin's-in-the-fields church to mark AI 's anniversary . |
| 18 | Although the sciences had begun to develop in English universities in the nineteenth century ( following Scottish innovations ) , it is probably fair to say that the dominant culture of the universities was founded on the humanities up to and even a little beyond the Second World War . |
| 19 | A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders . |
| 20 | The property of the executed and imprisoned rebels was distributed amongst the victors : the Despensers , as might have been expected , were the chief beneficiaries . |
| 21 | Wearing various Squadron markings over the years with BBMF , ‘ LF ’ for the last couple of years was seen in the markings of James Nicolson 's aircraft , ‘ GN-A ’ of 249 Squadron . |
| 22 | A group of 2037 retired coal miners aged 50–75 years was identified from the records of the North Nottinghamshire Miners ' Pension Fund ( with the cooperation of the Pension Fund Board and the Union of Democratic Mineworkers ) . |
| 23 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 24 | The number of entrants was swelled by the servicemen who took part , ‘ volunteered ’ by their superior officers as a good way of keeping fit and in training , especially as some did it in their army boots . |
| 25 | The composition of these pore waters was controlled by the conditions existing at the surface , and these in turn were dependent on the stage reached in the ‘ evaporation cycle ’ ( Clark 1980a ; Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 26 | An indication of the prospects of success of this and similar efforts was provided by the remarks of Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 27 | In 1945 a general power to apportion damages was given to the courts by the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 . |
| 28 | Gradually the word cadets was corrupted by the Scots to ‘ cady ’ , meaning an odd-job man . |
| 29 | A catalogue of past and present social difficulties was associated with the mothers ' depression . |
| 30 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |