Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 32 | Possible difficulties and conflicts were avoided by the creation , initially under US initiative , of the Antarctic Treaty of 1961 , which avoided questions of ownership and provided an alternative basis for conservation legislation . |
| 33 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 34 | The operation of the twenty-two disciplinary offences was suspended and concessions were made on the fees for signing on and off . |
| 35 | Your breast and thighs were blazing like the gorse . |
| 36 | Revenue was up , expenditure too and some young trees , notably 30 birches and limes were planted between the 12th and 14th , also the ‘ plantation ’ ( now a copse ) between the 14th and 15th , and the bushes behind the 2nd , plus many others . |
| 37 | Balkan aggression was directed at the Germans and Austrians for much the same reason that Polish nationalism was directed against the partitioning powers , but unlike the Poles , the Serbians and Bosnians were supported by the Russians . |
| 38 | However , bistables based on individual transistors are sometimes used and valves were used for the purpose many years ago . |
| 39 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 40 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 41 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 42 | Athenian style temples and halls were built by the Welland , probably with long colonnades of beautiful fluted Doric columns carved by Greek masons in the local limestone . |
| 43 | Many fortresses and castles were built in the Middle Ages in Poland . |
| 44 | The Don canal was made to connect Sheffield with the Humber estuary , and various branches and inter-connections were made to the system before the coming of the railways , to make those canals serving the coal-mining and iron and steel industries some of the busiest commercial waterways in the country . |
| 45 | The colours and shapes were intensified by the sun 's last strong rays so that the ruins of the abbey looked unreal , a golden fantasy against the blue of the sea , and the dry grass gleamed as richly as a lush water meadow . |
| 46 | Public marches and rallies were banned in the city centre , including Tiananmen Square and the road to the airport . |
| 47 | Drinks and snacks were required in the library . |
| 48 | In the midst of summer when you came out , your eyes burned with sunlight and your small meaty smooth arms and legs were stung by the pavement 's heat . |
| 49 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 50 | In almost all cases names and addresses were obtained from the ATB training advisers in the various parts of the country . |
| 51 | An upturn in the strength of the Impressionist and Modern market , together with strong performances in the fields of jewellery , Old Master pictures and books were noted in the report . |
| 52 | Here Acton followed the general materialist principles of contemporary physiology , in which ideas and sensations were conceived as the direct product of physical processes or environmental influences . |
| 53 | Following the 1948 Act efforts were made to foster a deprived child where possible and homes were regarded on the whole as second best . |
| 54 | Either local cultivators and pastoralists were cleared from the land completely and it was reserved for European immigrants , or in some cases ( like Uganda and larger parts of Tanganyika ) local cultivators were encouraged , or forced , to grow crops for sale either as export crops or as food crops to feed the mining workforces in southern Africa ( for longer accounts of the processes of settler immigration and colonial policies , see Rodney 1972 ; Palmer & Parsons 1977 ) . |
| 55 | Office workers and shoppers were evacuated from the area surrounding the Reject Shop in Cornmarket as police moved in with sniffer dogs . |
| 56 | Thin Cambrian quartzites and limestones were deposited on the continental shelf of the North-west Foreland . |
| 57 | All the lead from the roof had been stolen by official vandals , and bushes were growing through the floor of the entrance hall . |
| 58 | Behind this colonnade shops and offices were built against the rear wall . |
| 59 | Drugs and solutions were prepared on the day of use . |
| 60 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |