Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A culture of gentility and manners was based on profit from rent and colonial investments . |
| 2 | The BDDA again proved its usefulness when in 1931 insurance against third party risks was made by law compulsory for motorists . |
| 3 | Thus the decorative sumptuousness of the no longer oppositional , visual arts was matched by monumentalism , baroque self-indulgence , and primacy of symbol over function in Vienna 's built environment . |
| 4 | At the same time , funding from the New York State Council for the Arts was reduced by 56% . |
| 5 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 6 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 7 | A gruesome ritual undertaken by the sorcerer-in-charge was to roast cats on spits until Big Ears was goaded into appearing . |
| 8 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 9 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 10 | SOCIETY IN FRANCE during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was characterized by enormous upheavals , leaps forward and painful retreats . |
| 11 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 12 | An imperial tradition lasting for more than two centuries was ended on Oct. 5 when it was announced that federal Prime Minister Paul Keating and Queen Elizabeth II had agreed that Australian citizens would no longer be nominated for the receipt of UK honours . |
| 13 | The world 's biggest collection of Korean ceramics over 1,000 pieces spanning the tenth to nineteenth centuries was formed from 1951 by the Japanese industrialist Eiichi Ataka . |
| 14 | The history of north and central Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was dominated by Venice , Milan , Florence and Genoa — even Siena faded into second rank after the 1340s . |
| 15 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 16 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 17 | She felt Johnny 's body stiffen , and the mellow , languid expression in his eyes was replaced by something infinitely less comforting . |
| 18 | He responded more passionately , and for a second the faraway look in his eyes was replaced by knowingness and humour . |
| 19 | A short , stocky middle-aged man with thinning brown hair , a ruddy face and a twinkle in his eyes was standing at the doorway eyeing him . |
| 20 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 21 | One of the frogs was eaten by a lizard . |
| 22 | To show that pREP8-CFTR expresses CFTR protein after transfection , plasmid DNA complexed with cationic liposomes was introduced into HeLa cells and CFTR protein detected by western blotting ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 23 | Again the howl , as if one of Satan 's demons was rising from the pit of Hell . |
| 24 | The bad news for fans was revealed by guitarist Brian May , who said the group no longer made sense without its vocalist . |
| 25 | A JUDGE 'S refusal to let undercover police officers give evidence behind a screen at the trial of 19 Manchester United fans was upheld in the High Court yesterday . |
| 26 | ( A further 9% of UK equities was held by investment and unit trusts . ) |
| 27 | A proposal by Germany to create CSCE peace-keeping units was opposed by the United States , the United Kingdom and France . |
| 28 | A first series of eight 1300-MWe units was launched in 1976 ( Paluel , Flamanville , Saint-Alban ) . |
| 29 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 30 | One study of Parkinson 's disease , an incurable nervous condition , showed that the use of garden pesticides was associated with a higher incidence of the disease . |