Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words were lost in a fit of coughing , and at once he dragged her to her feet , supporting her across Water Gypsy 's gangplank . |
| 2 | … and ribber These two little words were cut off a sentence at the bottom of the page in Liz 's October article , thereby changing its meaning . |
| 3 | His words were followed by a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen . |
| 4 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 5 | So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust . |
| 6 | In dealing with the allegation of infringement of a trade mark , Lord Justice Dillon said that there could only be such an infringement if the words were used by an offender in the trade mark sense . |
| 7 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 8 | The words were delivered with a flatness that stopped her with her hand on the door . |
| 9 | Input words were coded by a feature vector sequence . |
| 10 | Protein-DNA complexes were resolved on a polyacrylamide gel and the gel dried and autoradiographed . |
| 11 | ELEVEN soccer fans were arrested for a variety of public order offences following Saturday 's Third Division soccer match between Hartlepool United and Stoke City . |
| 12 | Verhoeven 's demons were born of a harrowing , uniquely European childhood . |
| 13 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 14 | However , such considerations were overshadowed by an incident five months later . |
| 15 | Koranic schools were functioning in a lot of the villages and even in the refuge camps , for the children to attend . |
| 16 | The proposed continuation schools were seen as a means whereby the newly-discovered young workers would be given a ‘ liberal ’ education , involving a version of civic ethics which emphasized both occupational adaptability and community service . |
| 17 | By introducing controversial issues in the school , like Northern Ireland , race relations , aid to underdeveloped countries and nuclear weapons , schools were engaging in a politicisation of the curriculum which verged on , often slipped over into , quite unacceptable indoctrination . |
| 18 | Since offices were regarded as a form of property , reform could be stigmatized as an encroachment upon freehold . |
| 19 | The majority of quarrels were started by a struggle for possessions . |
| 20 | The guards were threatened with a gun before the two IRA bombers fled . |
| 21 | Two guards were attacked with a razor blade and slightly injured . |
| 22 | Ninety-three survivors were reviewed at a mean of 53 weeks after infarction . |
| 23 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 24 | Single photon pulses were detected with an EMI APED amplifier discriminator ( Thorn EMI , Ruislip , England ) , and these pulses were recorded with a frequency counter . |
| 25 | Single photon pulses were detected with an EMI APED amplifier discriminator ( Thorn EMI , Ruislip , England ) , and these pulses were recorded with a frequency counter . |
| 26 | Protein concentrations were determined by a modification of the method of Lowry using BSA as a standard . |
| 27 | Total vitamin C concentrations were determined by a modification of our original technique after reduction of dehydroascorbic acid to ascorbic acid at 45°C for 120 minutes in the presence of excess dithiothreitol . |
| 28 | Initial ozone concentrations were taken from a mid-December climatology . |
| 29 | Plasma glucose ( during clinical monitoring ) and blood glucose ( during the clamps ) concentrations were measured by a glucose oxidase method ( Yellow Springs glucose analyser , Yellow Springs Instrument , Ohio , United States ) . |
| 30 | IgA antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured by a method developed and validated in the department , the upper limit of normal being 90 arbitrary units/l . |