Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 2 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 3 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 4 | In Wandsworth the attitude of the Area Health Authority and of Health Visitors was described to me by Geeta Amin , a social worker with Wandsworth Community Relations Council . |
| 5 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
| 6 | Had the situation been different and plastic bullets had been fired , the longer-term consequence would have been to have moved the police significantly towards the position where the use of baton rounds was perceived by them as an appropriate method of crowd dispersal during large-scale civil disturbance . |
| 7 | **The number of parliamentary seats was increased by one in 1992 with the division of the Milton Keynes constituency into two . |
| 8 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |
| 9 | After his release the fairly lucrative office of secretary and clerk of the Signet in Wales and the Marches was bestowed upon him in October 1671 . |
| 10 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |