Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 2 | The more popular meetings of the NL were attended by between 200 and 400 , although attendances fell rapidly in the summer of 1939 . |
| 3 | The General and Jinkwa were lowered down and out . |
| 4 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 5 | In Leicestershire , the communities at Wigston and Ulston were largely free , whereas Foston , only 2 or 3 miles from Wigston , and Galby were occupied largely by servile tenants ( 83 , pp.53–4 ) . |
| 6 | After their big score on Wednesday , world champions Pakistan were skittled out for just ninety-three at New Road . |
| 7 | Squig Hunters were dispatched into the deep tunnels to fetch more Cave Squigs , while Netters were sent off to hunt down Stone Trolls amongst the mountains . |
| 8 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 9 | Heighington Slide show : Villagers in Heighington were entertained recently with a slide show given by John Bennington . |
| 10 | LEAs were given carefully defined responsibilities , to identify the needs of children with a learning difficulty which , in the view of an LEA , calls for it to determine the provision required for the child . |
| 11 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 12 | But over-confidence took a hold after the leadership was attained , points were dropped , and when Arsenal were drawn away to Walsall , of the Third Division North , in the Cup , Chapman himself fell victim . |
| 13 | In the event ad hoc committees for Wallonia , Flanders and bilingual Brussels were set up to decide on arms exports , the renewal was approved , and replacements were appointed for the two Volksunie ministers . |
| 14 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 15 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 16 | One of the greatest centres of renaissance art , Raphael and Brumante were born here and it is surrounded by massive ramparts , set amid rolling hills and dominated by the superb 15th century Palazzo Ducale . |
| 17 | He stared wide-eyed , then turned aside and looked disdainful while the grizzled , worn features of Duran were screwed up to hide his frustration . |
| 18 | No Andy and Ann were born here |
| 19 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 20 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 21 | RECENT violent scenes outside the Timex plant in Dundee were condemned yesterday by the vice-president of Timex Corporation and chairman of Timex Electronics Corporation , John Dryfe . |
| 22 | Hannele and Edward were handed off , and entered the opulent interior through a doorway cut in the yacht 's side . |
| 23 | While the fax winked and peeped on its artistic way , following in the steps of the great etchers and lithographers , tributes to fax from Hockney were passed round . |
| 24 | After the remains of the crew were removed , bomb disposal experts from RAF Wittering were called in to make sure the wreckage and the surrounding earth did not contain unexploded bombs . |
| 25 | For a long time the Drus were passed off as a mere shoulder of the greater Aiguille Verte . |
| 26 | So great were the production demands on this story that both Barry Newbery and Raymond Cusick were pulled in to design its visual composition . |
| 27 | Shatila and Bourj el-Brajneh were shelled incessantly from the month of May 1988 . |
| 28 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , when noble families all over Europe were becoming increasingly art-conscious in the wake of the Renaissance and anxious to fill their mansions and palaces with pieces of classical statuary and other antiquities , the remains of Pompeii were ravaged haphazardly , with innumerable random pits being dug in the hope of turning up items of value , particularly small carved figures , vases and pieces of jewellery . |
| 29 | Both Martin ( jolly hockey sticks ) Hunter and John ( large centre parting ) Richard were brought in due to the absence of Neil Wise , our area sales manager who was away on holiday . |
| 30 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |