Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Red Brigade were holding Moro in Portuense , were n't they ? ’ she commented suddenly . |
| 2 | Whatever the reason , three of the strongest members of the U.S. side were to find water off the tee at the last . |
| 3 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 4 | But the anger and the fear were taking possession of him . |
| 5 | The position is equivalent to that which would exist if the third defendant were claiming contribution by means of a separate action after being held liable to the plaintiffs . |
| 6 | Delays for defendants in trials on indictment were giving cause for concern in 1975 , when the James Committee reported , but at that stage over 70 per cent . |
| 7 | BY the time Mark Wright lifted the FA Cup on Saturday even those outside the North-East were becoming sick of the spoon-fed memories of 1973 . |
| 8 | The trial was randomised , double blind , and placebo controlled with a 2×2 factorial design ; 17,187 patients who presented within 24 h of symptom onset were assigned treatment with 162.5 mg aspirin daily by mouth , 1.5 million units of streptokinase intravenously over 60 min , both , or neither . |
| 9 | First production from Draugen — BPNorway 's most valuable asset — comes just one month after the announcement of Norway 's 14th licensing round , in which BPExploration was awarded operatorship of two licences and a stake in a third . |
| 10 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 11 | A British journalist was taken prisoner in the train ambush but was released after five days . |
| 12 | Significantly , the text of the Law of Succession was made public on 31 March , the eve of " Victory Day " , the anniversary of the end of the Civil War . |
| 13 | The result was to create disaffection in the ranks and lead to accusations of police brutality from Amnesty International among others and to Garvey 's sacking . |
| 14 | Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq . |
| 15 | His only reaction at being accused of murder was to spit rice over the sergeant reading the charge . |
| 16 | The aim of the PLANIT Club was to pull knowledge about the process planning , project planning and job-shop scheduling . |
| 17 | King George VI had lost the title of ‘ Emperor of India ’ when that continent was granted independence in August 1947 , but was delighted at the birth of a grandson , in 1948 , by Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip , and named Charles — destined to become Prince of Wales . |
| 18 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 19 | In an election on Feb. 14 , 1988 , Georgios Vassiliou was elected President in place of Spyros Kyprianou , and his new Cabinet took office on Feb. 29 [ see pp. 35849-50 ] . |
| 20 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 21 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 22 | Bob Elphinston , general manager of the Sydney bid , said the Manchester bid was gaining support among the 91 International Olympic Committee members . |
| 23 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 24 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 25 | The purpose of the study was to provide information concerning the perceptions and beliefs of the local people with regard to diarrhoea and its treatment . |
| 26 | The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition . |
| 27 | His original intention was to do research in Political Geography , but Central Europe was at that time too political for such research to be practical . |
| 28 | There was no attempt to supervise all juveniles ( aged between 14 and 17 ) who numbered about 36,000 in 1910 ; instead , the intention was to make contact with the school-leavers , of whom there were approximately 9,000 , with each ‘ helper ’ responsible for ten or less . |
| 29 | If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective . |
| 30 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |