Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | The skin around Richard 's eyes was pulled tight with tension . |
| 3 | It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants . |
| 4 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 5 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 6 | He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming . |
| 7 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 8 | The emotional trauma suffered by Joe and his brothers was outweighed only by the physical pain Joe claimed his father inflicted upon them , whipping and even punching them . |
| 9 | On March 12 a civilian helicopter transporting 18 Georgian National Guards was shot down near Zugdidi and its occupants taken hostage . |
| 10 | In situ hybridisation with the lysozyme RNA probes was carried out with minor modifications of a standard protocol . |
| 11 | An eight-point plan to beat teacher shortages was unveiled yesterday by Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's education spoksman , who accused ministers of being ‘ trapped in a torpor induced by ignorance ’ about the true nature of the crisis . |
| 12 | An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers . |
| 13 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 14 | A considerable part of these funds was passed on as dinar loans to domestic enterprises . |
| 15 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 16 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 17 | The possibility of high chain extension in polymer solutions was pointed out by F. C. Frank in 1970 , and the experiments of Mackley using extensional flow fields generated by two opposing jets indicated that very high extensions were attainable , as was shown by the birefringence observed in the flowing solution . |
| 18 | An energetic girl , she spent the day swimming , jogging , cycling and hiking before retiring to their tent , blissfully ignorant that the thrust of Floss 's nightly attentions was directed not at her but the succuba who also haunted my dreams . |
| 19 | In the meantime , as predicted , Croydon Corporation terminated the lease and from 1 June , the service provided by their cars was cut back to Selby Road on the South Norwood route . |
| 20 | His book on these subjects was published posthumously as The Construction and Use of a Thermometer ( 1794 ) . |
| 21 | An episode of the highly successful TV comedy The Likely Lads was based entirely on the two working-class Geordie protagonists not being told the result of a recorded game . |
| 22 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 23 | They warned ( after an army helicopter carrying Wijnaendts was fired on over Okucani on Sept. 11 and forced to land ) that they would leave Yugoslavia if their safety could not be guaranteed . |
| 24 | The ‘ double vowel ’ interpretation of English long vowels was put forward by MacCarthy ( 1952 ) and is used by Kreidler ( 1989 ) . |
| 25 | B. Until recently power for industry and homes was produced locally by separate companies . |
| 26 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 27 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 28 | Lack of buying by US clients was singled out as a particular problem . |
| 29 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 30 | In form alone there are similarities between certain glass bowls and plain ceramic bowls , but it is difficult to find ceramic equivalents of distinctive glass forms , suggesting that any social and economic symbolism conveyed by the shape and function of such vessels was conveyed equally by the material used , and that there were rigid boundaries between them ; there was not , for instance , a poor man 's version of the glass cone beaker . |