Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 2 | Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail . |
| 3 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
| 4 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 5 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 6 | ‘ And there I was wondering why you were smelling like a — like a … ’ |
| 7 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 8 | Some of the images were traced to an account by an author on Kashmir , and some to another one of Florida by a different author . |
| 9 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 10 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 11 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 12 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
| 13 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
| 14 | The objectives would be achieved more readily ‘ if courses were developed on a unit basis ’ . |
| 15 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 16 | In the interval , policies were developed at a slower pace than the rate the problems multiplied with which they were intended to deal . |
| 17 | The pictures were developed from a film found in a camera belonging to Elizabeth Over , 30 , murdered on a lonely beach at Sodwana Bay , in Zululand . |
| 18 | In the course of the project , assessment materials were developed in a variety of modes . |
| 19 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 20 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 21 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 22 | In the fifth century rectangular and sunken buildings were erected over an earlier farm and its fields . |
| 23 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 24 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 25 | The march eventually reached its destination but , on the same night , barricades were erected against an RUC raid on the Bogside . |
| 26 | On 2 September , troops opened fire when barricades were erected by a group protesting against a sharp increase in the cost of living and the government 's failure to convene a national conference to discuss the country 's political future . |
| 27 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 28 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 29 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 30 | Chi-squared , Fisher 's exact , Student 's t , and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to detect significant differences among vaccine groups ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for proportions were calculated on a logit scale and converted to the original scale , and 95% CIs for GMTs were calculated with the method of normal approximation . |