Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 40 people were killed in Bamako on 22 March after a student demonstration was stopped by the security forces and rioting broke out . |
| 2 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 3 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 4 | When Part II to Schedule 12 was amended by the Building Societies ( Investigation of Complaints ) Order 1990 ( S.I . |
| 5 | The Maclean coat of arms was repainted on the funeral banners and his shield . |
| 6 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 7 | The grave of the athlete Eric Liddell , the man who refused to run in the Olympics on the Sabbath in 1924 and whose story was immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire , has at last been found , unmarked . |
| 8 | His tan shirt was ironed with the regulation creases ; above one pocket was a set of silver parachute wings , above the other , three rows of coloured medal ribbons . |
| 9 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 10 | He was dismissed in the opening minutes of Great Britain 's third Test with New Zealand for head-butting and sent off the following day for tripping Castleford 's Steve Larder . |
| 11 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 12 | Although the initial mapping was in the Grampians , it was not long before part of the team was diverted to the North-West Highlands . |
| 13 | Their legislative response was to include in the Act ways to allow some children to be exempted from the full curriculum . |
| 14 | Throughout May and June nothing was heard from the kidnap groups at all . |
| 15 | This dilemma was highlighted in the opening quotations , and later by Ross in his comparison of the shortfall between the aims and the assessment objectives for art and music GCSE . |
| 16 | That submission was given to the trade unions and is public knowledge . |
| 17 | There was , for example , no indication that , either within its own construction programme of housing for single people or in its collaboration with a local housing association , any consideration was given to the housing needs of single disabled people . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree also that those people will not welcome the pledge that was given from the Opposition Benches yesterday to ensure that high-spending Labour authorities can go with gay abandon to yet higher spending ? |
| 19 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 20 | A side hole for balloon pressure measurements was placed between the detection electrodes . |
| 21 | As the majority of the roof load , thatch or oak shingles , was placed on the wall plates , steeply inclined external raking timbers counteracted the thrust of the rafters . |
| 22 | This was typified by the television commentaries , which I heard on video when I returned to Britain . |
| 23 | Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened . |
| 24 | Evidence was gathered in the project schools from questionnaires , interviews and observation . |
| 25 | A wide crock on the table was filled with the flower heads , the seed pods and the leaves of nasturtiums from the garden . |
| 26 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |
| 27 | • Phil Hill was honoured by the race organisers to mark the world title the American diver won 30 years ago . |
| 28 | If cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was diagnosed from the tissue specimens we excised the whole transformation zone about 4–6 weeks later by low voltage diathermy ablation or cold knife conisation . |
| 29 | The earliest substantial collection of pile fabrics in existence , which dates from between the 5th and 10th centuries AD , was excavated from the burial grounds of Akhmim and Faiyum in Egypt , and other specimens from the same period have been found throughout Turkey , Central Asia and other pars of the Orient . |
| 30 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |