Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
| 2 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 3 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 4 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 5 | Phylogenetic trees based on the nucleic acid sequences of introns inserted at the identical position as intron 1 of the LSUrRNA gene from P.wickerhamii were calculated with a maximum parsimony program ( 36 ) , a maximum likelihood and a neighbour joining program ( 35 ) . |
| 6 | All four of the white Los Angeles police officers , whose acquittal in the Rodney King beating case sparked several days of rioting in the city in late April and early May [ see p. 38894 ] , were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 4 on federal charges of violating King 's civil rights . |
| 7 | Pieces of buttered toast were arranged in a regular pattern on a silver dish — four slices awaiting their crowning with four perfect eggs . |
| 8 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 9 | The shimmering folds of the nets were arranged in a looping canopy above where the musicians played , and effected a startling , glowing paleness in the untidy gloom of the attic . |
| 10 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
| 11 | In yet another demonstration of Yugoslavia 's fragmentation along ethnic lines , hostility between Serbs and Moslems ( who were recognized as a distinct nationality in Yugoslavia ) led to clashes in Bosnia-Hercegovina 's southern town of Foca , and across the nearby border in Serbia 's Novi Pazar district ( part of the historic Sanjak region ) . |
| 12 | All patients were sedated with a bolous dose of midazolam ( 2–5 mg ) and received 40 mg hyoscine butylbromide ( Buscopan ) intravenously before the procedure . |
| 13 | By the second century B.C. they were experimenting with a volcanic earth found near Vesuvius and named pozzolana after the town of Pozzuoli there . |
| 14 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 15 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 16 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 17 | Willie sat on a chair as his feet were placed into a measuring gauge . |
| 18 | If the cells were placed as a solid clump in the sandwich , induction was good and many of the cells developed into muscle ; but if the cells were placed in the sandwich as a thin single layer no muscle cells developed . |
| 19 | Subconfluent monolayers remained attached to coverslips , which were placed in a small chamber ( vol 2 ml ) and visualised on the stage of a Nikon ( Diaphot ) inverted microscope with Hoffmann modulated optics ( ×400 magnification ) . |
| 20 | They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all , facing the outgoing tide . |
| 21 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 22 | Most of the civilians , eventually totalling some 6,000 , were placed in a separate camp next to the main military encampment at Viktring . |
| 23 | Landsats 1–3 were placed in a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 910 km . |
| 24 | The staff were placed in a reserved occupation and not allowed to join the armed forces . |
| 25 | One or two lkg slices were placed in a special tray at the top of the familiar airline catering trolleys which were then transported in unrefrigerated vehicles to the aircraft . |
| 26 | They were placed in a large room with about thirty men . |
| 27 | Two large leather-covered armchairs were placed near a cast-iron stove , and between them there was a low table with a chessboard , the pieces set up ready for play . |
| 28 | Well-concealed redoubts were guarded by a triple barrier of barbed wire , fifty yards deep . |
| 29 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 30 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |