Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 2 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 3 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 4 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 5 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 6 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 7 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 8 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 9 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 10 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 11 | Usually , they had a single mast stepped amidships and were rigged with a single square sail . |
| 12 | Her expression was wistful , reminiscent , as she recalled how , once they had gone up endless stairs and were seated on the hard wooden benches , an attendant had come along and pushed them all closer and closer together so that as many spectators as possible could be packed in . |
| 13 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 14 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 15 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 16 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 17 | Leadership calls for party unity in difficult political circumstances prevailed , however , and were reinforced by a common underlying belief in the congress that the Sandinistas continued to exercise political influence in a tacit pact with the government . |
| 18 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 19 | In the Bekaa , he records , ‘ birds sang among the reeds and were echoed by a distant chorus from farm workers marching out to potato fields with long hoes over their shoulders . |
| 20 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 21 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 22 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |
| 23 | Some very wide wheels 16 inch diameter were fitted to One Ten and Forward Control vehicles and 15 inch diameter were an option with sand tyres and were fitted to the Pink Panthers . |
| 24 | The cars loaded in Talbot Square by the side of the Clifton Hotel , which was also the terminus of the Marton route , and were shedded in an enlarged Marton depot . |
| 25 | Some of the components of ‘ North Star ’ survived and were incorporated in a non-working replica built for the Stockton and Darlington centenary . |
| 26 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 27 | We shook hands and were joined by a sparkling red-head : ‘ Dr Sherry Brown , hello . |
| 28 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 29 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 30 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |