Example sentences of "of [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior man in the Ministry of Defence was telling us of the ‘ battle for hearts and minds ’ which his department is conducting among the people of the border villages . |
| 2 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 3 | This animal 's reaction to certain sequences of notes was to throw itself into uncontrollable convulsions . |
| 4 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 5 | Hundreds of rats were watching him with bright , anxious little eyes . |
| 6 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
| 7 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 8 | To her horror Benny realised that there were tears pouring down her face , and that a small circle of people were watching her in concern . |
| 9 | A scattered crowd of locals was eyeing them in silence . |
| 10 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
| 11 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 12 | The function of underwriters was to commit themselves before the issue to buy the bonds at a set minimum price , if they could not be sold by the managing group at a price above this minimum . |
| 13 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
| 14 | The calf was in such bad condition that it was decided that its only chance of survival was to transfer it to Colombo Zoo for treatment . |
| 15 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 16 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 17 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |