Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serum creatinine , amylase , serum asparate transaminase , and serum alanine transaminase were within the normal range . |
| 2 | AN ELECTRICAL retailer , a garden centre and a milk processor were among the winners of this year 's Scottish Marketing Awards . |
| 3 | The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the side table . |
| 4 | By 1945 , 63038 of the Gold Coast population were in the armed forces and 30 500 had served in the Burma campaign where two Divisions ( the 81st and 82nd ) came from West Africa . |
| 5 | Ambulance crew were in the shop for thirty five minutes while they carried out vital ewmergency treatment … |
| 6 | Her undies and the sandalwood box were in the top drawer of the dressing-table . |
| 7 | Six of 10 with only such small bowel involvement were below the third centile for height when their disease was recognised . |
| 8 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 9 | IN PARTS of Serb-held Bosnia , the results of the two-day referendum on the Vance-Owen peace plan were like the good old days of Russia or China . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , it 's now known that two other people from the Central South region were among the one hundred and sixty seven passengers killed . |
| 11 | The problems of acid rain , atmospheric pollution and climate change were among the problems discussed at a conference of forestry experts from 30 European nations on Dec. 18-19. with the aim of developing a common policy which will safeguard the forests of Europe . |
| 12 | During the noisy thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations , when Deng Xiaoping and his reform programme were at the peak of their popularity , few voices of dissent could be heard . |
| 13 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 14 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 15 | Merseybus AC were on the River Weaver at Winsford where Dave Hunter won with a level 5lbs . |
| 16 | Now , there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north ; Kelly had asked Bill for time off and he had agreed . |
| 17 | When enquiries were monitored in detail between September and November 1987 , one third of the cases brought to the welfare worker were of the kind that the CAB regularly deals with and the other two thirds were immigration enquiries . |
| 18 | The colours used for fresco painting were for the most part easily obtained : red ochre , yellow ochre , black ( either from charred bone or from carbonaceous shale ) and blue ( from a copper-tinted glass ) . |
| 19 | The Booth family were amongst the leading chapmen who organised the nail trade in the rural parishes that lay to the north of Sheffield . |
| 20 | A report presented to the US Congress 's General Accounting Office in late July indicated that drug trafficking and money laundering were on the increase in the country since the removal of the regime of Gen. Manuel Noriega Moreno in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 21 | We decided to exclude users of legal drugs such as alcohol , tobacco and caffeine , and users of prescribed drugs , such as tranquillisers and other hypnosedatives ( unless used in combination with one or more of the six study drugs ) , because these most prevalent forms of ‘ licit ’ drug use were outside the scope of our investigation . |
| 22 | Followers of our Placepot feature were in the money yet again yesterday with a £98 payout to an £8 stake at Towcester . |
| 23 | They found that two thirds of women who contracted breast cancer were outside the recognized screening age bracket of fifty to sixty four . |
| 24 | The court held that the erratic payment of stock dividends by companies to shareholders ( even though stock dividends were received in 1962/63 and 1963/64 ) paid out to the life tenant , was such that the payments in the hands of the life tenant were in the nature of capital . |
| 25 | ‘ This modern peril of the streets ’ , it was observed , ‘ created something like a reign of terror ’ in which ‘ whole sections of a peaceable city community were on the verge of arming themselves against sudden attack ’ . |
| 26 | Mount Edgecombe and the Rame Peninsula were in the front line and the Reverend Shaw describes , in his tour to the West of England , a visit to Mount Edgecombe ‘ where our defensive regiments are encamped ’ . |
| 27 | Most of those who wanted to escape city life were in the 15 to 34 age group rather than those planning to retire in the near future . |
| 28 | The Gunmint Committee were in the midst of yet another drastic reprogramming , to alter the surface of the Yggdrasil interface without really changing anything . |
| 29 | SHARES in the Savoy Hotel group were on the move last night , fuelled by bid talk . |
| 30 | Eva and her emergency team were amongst the first on the scene taking in food and clothing , and assessing the need for financial aid to help rebuild the shattered homes and schools . |