Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 2 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 3 | Near the end of his life Ramsey was asked which of his books he was most glad to have written . |
| 4 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 5 | Work was carried our on a car park , enabling a gentler gradient for the athletes . |
| 6 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 7 | Cheshire were left plenty of time to pursue a victory target of 174 , and even an 18-minute rain stoppage just prior to the start of the final hour failed to unduly affect them . |
| 8 | A further £375 was allowed him for assistants , and £52 for a Caretaker , heating , cleaning , coal , and coke " . |
| 9 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 10 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 11 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 12 | Okay , is n't it interesting , is n't depressing , that absolutely none of these things was taught you at school , except possibly the sport ? |
| 13 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 14 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 15 | At Metz , in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine , a station was built which with its German Romanesque frontage , Teutonic warrior statues , and stained-glass images of Charlemagne deliberately aimed to stress the current political status of the province . |
| 16 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 17 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 18 | Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high . |
| 19 | Any new insolvent debtor 's bill was rejected one after another . |
| 20 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 21 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 22 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 23 | After being rewarded for choosing A in the middle stage of training , the children were asked which of B and C they thought might bring reward . |
| 24 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 25 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 26 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 27 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 28 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 29 | Two others were offered it by their usual dealer . |
| 30 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |