Example sentences of "of [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | A lot of coins were thrown into the guitar case and some of them were pounds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century the stagnant waters of cities were haunted by the shadow of cholera . |
| 7 | A curfew was imposed , archers armed with loaded arbalests patrolled the streets and thick webs of chains were dragged across the entrances to the main thoroughfares . |
| 8 | If this step showed a significant difference for the variable examined , then pairs of subgroups were examined by the Newman-Keuls post hoc test . |
| 9 | Certainly , a vast number of Hurricanes were sent to the USSR from 1941 onwards — over 3,000 . |
| 10 | More than 95pc of calls were answered within the government 's deadline of 19 minutes but it was inevitable that a handful would cause problems . |
| 11 | Major sets of proposals were submitted by the EC on Sept. 25-26 and by the USA on Oct. 25-26 . |
| 12 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 13 | Three pairs of oyster-catchers were sighted around the main region and a total of 13 common sandpipers and a flight of 18 turnstones , most colourful birds and on passage at this time when they occur regularly at Abberton . |
| 14 | Suddenly all sorts of birds were alighting on the branches of the tree around where Little Billy was sitting , and the Minpins were climbing onto their backs in droves . |
| 15 | It is clear that many of these kinds of views were based on the evidence that in some areas of employment , and in particular on production lines involving speed and pacing , problems began as early as the mid to late forties . |
| 16 | A number of investigations were undertaken into the scale and direction of Partnership funding during the late 1970s ( Hall , 1978 ; Nabarro , 1980 ; Lawless , 1981a ) . |
| 17 | But some Serbs admitted thousands of prisoners were shuttled around the country to cover up the camps . |
| 18 | In the early seventeenth century , for instance , all sorts of cases were brought to the courts , from the seduction of wives to the incidence of prostitution . |
| 19 | The following notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports . |
| 20 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 21 | More than two thirds of mutations were located in the 5' half of the last exon , and over 90% resulted in truncation of the APC gene product . |
| 22 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 23 | The very fact that Adrian Vredeman de Vries 's series of bronzes were taken from the garden by the Swedes in 1648 to decorate Drottningholm is some measure of Wallenstein 's patronage . |
| 24 | Yesterday , busloads of lads were disgorged at the city square to make their feelings plain . |
| 25 | The parade of Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA managers should finally be concluded , says a report in La Repubblica , after the Milan judges interrogated Antonio Garrani , Daniele Mosca and Carlo Lombardoni last week : the three confirmed that other bribes for the supply of computers were paid to the Ministry of Justice through the administrator of a quasi-governmental agency . |
| 26 | An Army spokesman said : ‘ A number of intruders were disturbed within the security area . |
| 27 | Rumoured to have been locked in the safe at KISS FM when a couple of acetates were given to the station in advance of release , this is an ultra-obvious semi-Italio belter which should keep floors jumping . |
| 28 | Carloman 's widow , child , and a small band of supporters were welcomed by the Lombards , who pressed the child 's claim to a share of the Frankish kingdom . |
| 29 | This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification . |
| 30 | All manner of vessels were represented within the P&O Group at that time , from small coastal steamers to majestic liners . |