Example sentences of "of [noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 , it is estimated , 682,000 gallons of whisky were consumed by the French , and that was twice as much as in 1960 . |
| 2 | The small intestine was then perfused with either PES or an ORS at 0.5 ml/min for one hour to ensure steady state conditions , after which three successive 10 minute collections of effluent were made from the distal cannula . |
| 3 | A variety of opinions were aired on the matter by the politicians present , and there seemed to be a definite acknowledgement that at least some of those present held shares in Anglo United , the mother company of IBM . |
| 4 | Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 5 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 6 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 7 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 8 | Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated . |
| 9 | A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ . |
| 10 | A lot of coins were thrown into the guitar case and some of them were pounds . |
| 11 | Nearly 600 tons of flagstones were dropped during the operation : 300 tons along the Border Ridge near Blindburn in the Northumberland National Park ; 60 tons in Teesdale near Cauldron Snout and Bleabeck Force ; 65 tons at Calderdale near Longfield Common and 135 tons near Bleaklow in the peak National Park . |
| 12 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 13 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 14 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 15 | This line of authorities was overruled by the House of Lords in Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 : see 14.4 . |
| 16 | In the second category , ( for charities with income between £100,000 and £1m ) , first place and a prize of £1,000 was awarded to the Acorns Children 's Hospice . |
| 17 | World Student Christian Federation — A grant of £1,000 was approved towards the costs of students from the South attending a conference on Justice , Peace and the Integrity of Creation . |
| 18 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 19 | The name of the country was changed from the Mongolian People 's Republic to the State of Mongolia , and the yellow star of communism was removed from the state flag . |
| 20 | It is perhaps significant to record that the capacity of Naseby was increased during the 1930's by raising the crest of the outlet weir by 2 feet . |
| 21 | A degree of freedom was afforded to the Gascon nobility by the prevalence of allodial tenures , whereby no immediate lord was recognized , in certain parts of the region . |
| 22 | Even baskets of oddments were placed on the pavement , a practice which would be frowned on today , but the footpaths were kept spotlessly clean by each trader . |
| 23 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 24 | The second pair of cleavages was associated with the industrial revolution : one was linked to the division between town and country ( or agricultural and manufacturing interests ) ; the other concerned the growing division between employers and workers ( the class divide ) . |
| 25 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 26 | If no regeneration of mycelium was observed on the minimal medium without uridine , it was concluded that the nuclei had lost the ura + transforming gene during growth on non-selective medium . |
| 27 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 28 | An orgy of denunciations and evasions of responsibility was unleashed throughout the upper and middle levels of the bureaucracy . |
| 29 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |
| 30 | On the contrary , the lines of division were hardened between the two Western Christian camps , even on the more pastoral issues . |