Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chris Maxwell , 21 , and 22-year-old Roderick Arkell were swamped by the rolling white wall near the Val Thorens resort , near Grenoble . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Antibodies to HCV were screened with the second-generation Ortho HCV ELISA . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A marquis , Ridolfi was related to the Medici family through the marriage of one of his ancestors to a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent ; another member of the family , Cosimo Rodolfi , was a leading figure of the 19th century Risorgimento and the founder of Florence 's first savings bank . |
| 13 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 14 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 15 | Meredith was fascinated by the brief glimpse into his background , and wanted to ask why he needed to marry such a paragon . |
| 16 | Hari was seated in the small shed at the side of the house bent industriously over the wooden last . |
| 17 | The Soviet-DRA rejection of neutrality for Afghanistan was confirmed by the Afghan leader Babrak Karmal in an appearance on Afghan television on 21 March . |
| 18 | In a reshuffle on June 14 ( i ) Aguinaldo Jaime replaced Augusto Teixeira de Matos as Minister of Finance ; ( ii ) Boavista da Silva Cardoso was appointed to the new portfolio of Information ; and ( iii ) José de Franca Dias Van Dúnem was appointed Minister of Planning in place of António Henriques da Silva . |
| 19 | Hill was substituted in the 55th minute , too late to prevent Halifax going further behind . |
| 20 | A new bus service from the Tower to Hoo Hill was started in the same year , sealing the eventual fate of the Layton tram route . |
| 21 | Brothers Max ( the mechanic ) and Edwin ( the engine tuner ) both raced themselves ( bikes and car rallies respectively ) but quit when it became obvious that Bradl was destined for the big time . |
| 22 | Rosenberg was killed on the western front 1 April 1918 and buried in an unmarked grave . |
| 23 | Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city . |
| 24 | A classic confrontation between the two occurred when the Spaniard Diaz del Castillo was received by the Aztec leader Moctezuma in Mexico City . |
| 25 | Surviving this plot , Richard was retained in the royal household and in 1242 served as a banneret with the king 's army in Poitou . |
| 26 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 27 | However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 . |
| 28 | After a period supporting Coastal Command based at Predannock , Cornwall , in 1943 Braham was switched to the experimental task of escorting bomber streams over Europe . |
| 29 | Chandra Shekhar was born into the powerful Thakur caste of Uttar Pradesh landowners in July 1927 . |
| 30 | Leader of the State Council Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to the latter position — effectively a presidential role — with over 95 per cent of the vote . |