Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 42% said they were actively doing something to ‘ avoid getting TB ’ and were asked the open-ended question ‘ what are you doing to avoid getting TB ? ’ . |
| 2 | His parents then called from the USA and were given the false impression that British Consul staff were co-ordinating the search , when they actually had no regular contact with the Spanish authorities involved . |
| 3 | In 1901 , encouraged by the resurgence of peasant unrest , several local groups combined to form the Socialist Revolutionary ( SR ) Party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 4 | Several local groups came together in 1901 to form the SR party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 5 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 6 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 7 | In the 1630s the two were convicted of breaking the newly enforced forest laws , by the alleged theft of wood ( to make charcoal ) and were fined the huge sum of £59,000 , eventually reduced to £12,000 . |
| 8 | He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 . |
| 9 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 10 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 11 | Hasan had pressed his face to the glass in front of the cakes and was sniffing the fresh bread , a look of ecstasy on his face . |
| 12 | In an internal document issued on Dec. 14 and discovered by police during a raid in February , the leadership of ETA rejected arguments from within the organization to the effect that the armed struggle was lost , was senseless and was damaging the Basque nationalist left , and that ETA must face up to defeat . |
| 13 | The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and was extubated the next morning . |
| 14 | It appeared that a German S.P. gun had joined the snipers and was lobbing the occasional shell into the vicinity of the orchard . |
| 15 | The skipper was up and was reading the state-of-the-art technology with which the Nicholson was refitted after every Boat Show . |
| 16 | She came to the notice of Guess ? , the American jeans company , and was made the central focus of their international campaign . |
| 17 | About 11 p. m. he was aware that the wind was getting up and was buffeting the wooden signalbox . |
| 18 | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( The General Register Office in St Catherine 's House , London ) A central register of births , deaths and the solemnization and registration of marriages , was begun on 1 July 1837 and was called The General Register Office . |
| 19 | The new school was opened in 1927 and was called the Central School and the new road was named Staveley Road , which was lined with flowering cherry trees , a great attraction for visitors every year during blossom time — one of the more notable visitors each year was the late Queen Mary , consort to the King at that time , George V. |
| 20 | The mayor of Tamworth was there to officiate the opening of the facilities , and was encouraging the younger generation to help the environment by recycling . |
| 21 | Shelley had already gone to the patient and was holding the swollen ankle . |
| 22 | Outside the university , in July 1915 he became a chairman of the Glasgow munitions tribunal , but he proved ill-suited to handling its rowdy proceedings and was dismissed the following year . |
| 23 | His Essay towards a New Theory of Vision was published in 1709 , and was followed the next year by his master-work , A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge . |
| 24 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 25 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |
| 26 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
| 27 | Johnstone shot to fame as a 16 year old when he scored the winning goal for Rangers in the 1970 Cup Final against Celtic and was voted the Scottish Player of the Year in 1978 , the year of the abortive World Cup campaign in Argentina . |
| 28 | He had mounted the Dragoon 's horse and was leading the tired mare by her reins . |
| 29 | He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less . |
| 30 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |