Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 2 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 3 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 4 | Not that The Dick Nixons were indulging in a new pastime . |
| 5 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 6 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 7 | PAKISTAN were locked in a fresh ball-doctoring row yesterday after their three-run Texaco Trophy win at Lord 's . |
| 8 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 9 | Dacre is hardly likely to have welcomed the appointment of an ally of Henry Clifford , first Earl of Cumberland [ q.v. ] , who had supplanted him as warden in 1525–7 and was to do so again in 1534 , but relations between Dacre and Musgrave were worsened by a protracted dispute over rents in Bewcastledale . |
| 10 | The manuscript , originally compiled by Shah Jehan 's fawning court historian Inayat Khan , told the story of the apex of Mughal power , the golden age when most of India , all of Pakistan and great chunks of Afghanistan were ruled from the Red Fort in Delhi . |
| 11 | Chris Maxwell , 21 , and 22-year-old Roderick Arkell were swamped by the rolling white wall near the Val Thorens resort , near Grenoble . |
| 12 | After 34 minutes , Dulwich were presented with a third goal . |
| 13 | Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 14 | Henri Lefebvre , for example , formerly a bitter opponent of both Sartre and Nizan , recanted in 1959 , offering a more accommodating analysis of Nizan in particular , and Sartrean existentialism in general.43 Gradually , revolutionary aspirations that had been dashed by the Soviet intervention in Hungary were rekindled in the anti-colonial struggles of the Third World . |
| 15 | grandmother and I think there was an aunt , and I said Ken were living in a three bedroomed semi , oh they wo n't mind for Christmas . |
| 16 | WING wizard Phil Ford treated himself to five touchdowns as Whitehaven were swamped under a tidal wave of tries in this Lancashire Cup tie . |
| 17 | State President de Klerk and Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha were greeted by a 21-gun salute and the South African national anthem as they arrived in Nigeria , hitherto a leading critic of the South African regime . |
| 18 | Finally , the aspirations of the Greeks of Crete were met by a Turkish promise at last to put into force constitutional reforms announced ten years before . |
| 19 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 20 | Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved . |
| 21 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 22 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 23 | Antibodies to HCV were screened with the second-generation Ortho HCV ELISA . |
| 24 | With four minutes remaining of an ill-tempered game , Lazio were trailing to a 47th-minute goal scored by Roma favourite Giuseppe Giannini . |
| 25 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 26 | Fasting was maintained for a further 2 hours , after which a normal diet was permitted . |
| 27 | Spencers became Knights of the Garter , Privy Councillors , ambassadors and a First Lord of the Admiralty while the third Earl Spencer was considered as a possible Prime Minister . |
| 28 | There was surprise expressed when Downey was included in the semi-final line-up but he made an invaluable contribution in the second half through his positional sense and slick distribution . |
| 29 | Dr Cunningham was fixated on the potent effect of sex and socialism on Patricia Hewitt 's homophobic pensioners , who were yet still ignorant of their imminent deliverance by Glenys Thornton 's ‘ Plan To Win ’ : Mr Roberts , though extremely mindful of Labour 's Duty To Win , had had close working experience with the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights . |
| 30 | A dishevelled Michael Stein was leaning against a faded sign scribbled on the peeling wall . |