Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 2 | The uranium was contained in tens of thousands of armour-piercing rounds fired at Iraqi vehicles from aircraft and tanks in early 1991 . |
| 3 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 4 | The Park was created in 1967 and runs along the watershed in a strip never more than twelve kilometres wide , from the Aspe valley to the mass if of Néouvielle more than 100 kilometres to the east . |
| 5 | The park was opened in 1985 . |
| 6 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 7 | The opportunity was seized by European trading houses such as Lever Brothers , Union Miniere , the British-South Africa Company , and Lebanese , Syrian and Indian merchants . |
| 8 | The opportunity was taken during programmed maintenance and repair works to restore the appearance of the bridge , thereby enhancing its environs and creating a noticeable landmark to motorists and pedestrians passing under the bridge on route to the Capital 's city centre area . |
| 9 | The ages of those involved with the mothers talking here ranged between sixteen and thirty-five when their babies were born , but the majority were aged between seventeen and twenty-two . |
| 10 | That figure is true as regards loans made in the 1991 fiscal year , and means 69% ( worth $1.8 billion ) of the contracts were won by non-Japanese companies . |
| 11 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 12 | In the first group ( n=40 ) , half received calcium supplementation ( n=20 ) ; 16 animals ( eight receiving calcium ) were sacrified at 16 weeks ; the remainder were sacrified at 32 weeks . |
| 13 | After dewaxing , one section from each series was stained with haematoxylin and eosin for histological evaluation ; the remainder were subjected to paired immunohistochemical staining ( see below ) . |
| 14 | Most of the remainder was sold in separate lots in 1949 . |
| 15 | The remainder was divided between increased capitation for all schools , refurbishment of some twenty-five of them , and in-service support . |
| 16 | Samples ( 1 ml ) were taken for measurement of salivary pH and pCO 2 and the remainder was retinaed for further analysis . |
| 17 | From January 1991 until recently , the suite was occupied by Representative Bill Orton , freshman Democrat from Utah . |
| 18 | The incubation was terminated by rapid centrifugation , following which the supernatant was analysed for the presence of Ac-ASA by high performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) . |
| 19 | This last section of the questionnaire relates solely to training — the opinions were recorded of those who had used the services of the ATB in the past and the expectations of those who , until this study , did not know of the existence of the ATB . |
| 20 | The link was devised by American scientist Robert Ballard , who first surveyed the shipwreck of the Titanic . |
| 21 | The link was severed on 1 July and the aim is to move to being a single status organisation by 1 August 1994 . |
| 22 | The prince was positioned between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Spanish Prime Minister , Don Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 23 | The Prince was accompanied by other high-ranking SNC members , including Khieu Samphan , Hun Sen , Premier of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) or Phnom Penh regime , and Son Sann , leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front . |
| 24 | The direction was included with this measurement . |
| 25 | The split was led by many of the older instructors , especially the master , Egami , who disliked the growing tendency to promote karate as a sport . |
| 26 | In some abortion was tolerated , but considered so serious that the fetus was buried with full ceremony . |
| 27 | Thus , the Lord of the Manor was acclaimed by both workers on the land and consumers of their produce . |
| 28 | With phosphatidylcholine the cholesterol was distributed in both carriers . |
| 29 | The shirt was tucked into high-waisted trousers , and the trousers into soft calf-length boots which were embossed with gold . |
| 30 | And on that very instant the waterfall was turned to red wine , and there were men with staves , making casks , men stoking furnaces to make bottles , men collecting the wine . |