Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 2 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 3 | His successors were weighed down by the sense of duty . |
| 4 | The demographic and clinical characteristics were compared statistically by the Wilcoxon rank sum test ( age , ulcer history , pain score ) or Fisher 's exact test ( gender , smoker , alcohol use ) and the results of treatment by Fischer 's exact test or the log-rank test ( pain relief ) . |
| 5 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 6 | Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE-running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10% polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) . |
| 7 | Pearce 's screams were borne away on the wind . |
| 8 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 9 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 10 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 11 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 12 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 13 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 14 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 15 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 16 | Its significations were shifted away from the evangelical , nonconformist emphasis of the purity movement . |
| 17 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 18 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 19 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 20 | Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad , to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire . |
| 21 | The national press and media were travelling on the plane with Mrs Thatcher , but the local photographers and journalists were going directly to the airport ahead of time . |
| 22 | In two or three months in 1939 , territorial units were brought close to the standard of regular infantry battalions and gunner regiments . |
| 23 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 24 | A pair of trousers lay across the back of a chair and his pyjamas were stuffed untidily beneath the pillow . |
| 25 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 26 | Soon visuals with clever captions were pinned all round the room . |
| 27 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 28 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 29 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 30 | Serum pepsinogen A and C concentrations were measured only in the basal samples , because it has been shown that feeding does not change these . |