Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longitudinal sonograms of the gall bladder were recorded on film . |
| 2 | Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area . |
| 3 | Those Communist regimes which tried to ban religion were known for their cruelty . |
| 4 | In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy . |
| 5 | Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question . |
| 6 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 7 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 8 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 9 | Metal polish , on the other hand , often contains ammonia which can burn skin and petroleum distillates which are highly poisonous if swallowed ; aspirin — one of the most widely used painkillers — can damage the stomach lining and is dangerous for people with stomach ulcers and kidney problems ; and more cases of salmonella food poisoning were caused by beef in the UK during 1984 than by any other single meat . |
| 10 | She died in the December of that year , joining her husband in the family grave ; many letters of condolence were received by Ernie at Freegrove Road , including one from Cousin Alf Davidge of Cricklewood — the husband of Benjamin James 's daughter , Bessie . |
| 11 | One moment the Sergeant was screaming at his men to charge hard home , and the next he and his horse were hit by the metal gale of an exploding canister . |
| 12 | Death and renewal were accepted as part of an ever-continuing cycle . |
| 13 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 14 | Although the trade union side were furnished with a job description , we have been unable to ascertain the role of the area directors , particularly in relation to where they fit into the industrial relations network . |
| 15 | Banbridge started the second half in more determined mood and forced Bangor back and the home side were rattled by some excellent play by the visitors . |
| 16 | ROSSLYN PARK 'S captain , Richard Moon , who this season has seen more needle and thread than the Bayeux tapestry , was stitched up again last Saturday after his side were relegated following their defeat by Bath . |
| 17 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 18 | Preferring to pound the rugby pitch rather than passively wait for Valentine 's cards dropping through the letter box , the efforts of the 15 women on the Scotland side were rewarded with a 10-0 win . |
| 19 | Those on the infected side were threatened with death either way , it seems . |
| 20 | The trestle tables down each side were stained with wine and strewn with the stale remains of various meals . |
| 21 | Poor Dave Bassett and his side were left with nothing after probably their best away performance of the season . |
| 22 | The sandstone rocks along its western side were known to be porous , but the engineers predicted that the pores would be blocked by silt . |
| 23 | At each stage there was to be a reshuffle of cars in depôts , so that the worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first and the better cars from a depôt closing were moved to another one . |
| 24 | Duncan Smith , prosecuting , said a row had developed when Harker and his girlfriend were living with his parents in Chaucer Avenue , Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | However , their vaunted credentials as representatives of the opposition were questioned by commentators . |
| 26 | The supporters of Barbarossa became known as Ghibellines from the name of the Hohenstaufen castle , Waiblingen ; and the opposition were known as Guelphs , from the Welfs , traditional enemies of the house of Hohenstaufen . |
| 27 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 28 | Against a dark background pieces of white card were moved in a plane perpendicular to the line of view until ‘ seen ’ . |
| 29 | The Saudi Arabian ambassador to Yemen and an adviser were rescued by security sources on April 20 after being held hostage for 18 hours . |
| 30 | Paired data for laser energy per month required and for frequency of endoscopic treatment before and after radiotherapy were analysed with the Wilcoxon signed rank test . |