Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many women from AMPES decided to go to the combat zones , or were forced to leave the country . |
| 2 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 3 | Five Danish medical officers and four English coroners were supplied with details of forty cases of sudden death , half English and half Danish , and were asked to give a verdict of suicide , accident , homicide , natural causes , or ‘ open ’ . |
| 4 | The comparability of the CVs was confirmed by two consultants who were unaware of the purpose of the research and were asked to rate the CVs after the names had been removed . |
| 5 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 6 | However , after being refused passage by two ferry companies , they were forced to admit their load was not radioactive and were made to remove the stickers and signs before they could sail . |
| 7 | They listened to an impassioned sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Tyre and were moved to take the cross themselves . |
| 8 | The clubhouse plans ( of which no copy exists ) were discussed , and were revised to include a scullery ; the usual offices ( presumably the toilets ) were to be in a detached , rather than integral , building . |
| 9 | According to one , Sotheby 's had foreclosed and were seeking to sell the painting themselves in Switzerland at a price around $35m , a substantial reduction on the auction price — a private sale being preferred to the public ignominy of auction . |
| 10 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 11 | These succeeded the foundation of the NATO alliance in Europe and were intended to constrain the influence of Soviet and Chinese communism . |
| 12 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 13 | Last month , Barnet were found guilty of financial irregularities by the Football League and were ordered to pay a fine of £50,000 , which they said they were going to appeal against . |
| 14 | A proposed cut in wages was doubled , they were charged 25 pence for the half-time orange and were required to leave a £35 deposit when they took their kit home for washing . |
| 15 | We all carried water bottles and were encouraged to drink a lot of water . |
| 16 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 17 | They were in demand to play fantastic or comic roles such as satyrs or jesters and were used to relieve the solemnity of late eighteenthand ninteenth-century ballets , e.g. the many jesters found in Petipa and Soviet ballets and Puck in Ashton 's The Dream . |
| 18 | some of the pegs can not be clipped and were used to equip the route . |
| 19 | The talks addressed trade , transit and security matters and were designed to pave the way for a forthcoming visit by Indian Foreign Minister I. K. Gujral . |
| 20 | Opposition groups , centred on 32 former members of the National Assembly dissolved in 1986 [ see pp. 34767-68 ] , had campaigned for a boycott of the elections , claiming that they were unconstitutional and were designed to elect a council " without teeth " . |
| 21 | However , the most important sources available to later northern writers were the poems attributed to the professional skalds who visited princely courts and were paid to celebrate the achievements of patrons like Cnut , King Olaf Haraldsson of Norway ( St Olaf ) and Earl Eric of Lade . |
| 22 | They followed her pointing arm with their eyes , and were chilled to see a group of thin figures form out of the darkness all around , shambling towards the group of tired combatants . |
| 23 | Several boats had followed and were waiting to transport the tourists back to a civilisation that seemed so very far away from the respite of these fascinating caves . |
| 24 | A national survey of parent education and support found that all too often parents were seen as falling into one of two camps : either they were coping adequately and were considered to need no assistance , or they fell below an accepted level of ‘ good parenting ’ and became the focus of immediate state intervention ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | Newborn mice from transgenic line 6 were examined for HNF-L expression by S1 nuclease protection assay and were shown to express the transgene in brain ( figure 5 ) . |
| 26 | It was not allowed to stand , merely to percolate through the roots , and channels-were dug to conduct the water away into another meadow or back into the stream or river . |
| 27 | Output had been steadily growing by about five million bottles every fifteen years , and was destined to reach a total of no less than thirty million bottles a year by the turn of the century . |
| 28 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 29 | In order to give meaning to this sentence one would have to imagine a situation such as the following : someone was sorting pins of different sizes on a table ; without him seeing it , the smallest of these pins fell off the table and was heard to hit the floor by those present in the room . |
| 30 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |