Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 2 | Whenever possible laser and radiotherapy were performed on an outpatient basis although many patients came from long distances so radiotherapy had to be given as an inpatient . |
| 3 | Safeguards for the Spanish steel industry were incorporated in an additional protocol , the talks having been held up over Spain 's concern that cheap steel exports from the three countries would disrupt its domestic industry . |
| 4 | Thus within the new boundaries old hostilities between anglican and nonconformist , publican and temperance reformer , and even manufacturer and sections of skilled labour were buried by an overriding concern to forge unity against the municipal politics of the labour group . |
| 5 | The potentially confounding effects of musical experience with musical aptitude were dissociated in an experiment by Gaede , Parsons and Bertera ( 1978 ) . |
| 6 | In gel retardation assays 5.0ng affinity-purified DRTF1/E2F or 5.0μg of F9 EC crude cell extract were assayed with an oligonucleotide containing E2A promoter sequences -71 to -50 in the presence of 100-fold molar excess of -62/-60 ( E2A sequences -71 to -50 mutated in positions -62 , -61 and -60 ( ref. 20 ) ) . |
| 7 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 8 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 9 | Through their work , the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience . |
| 10 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 11 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 12 | About 300 ballot papers and an official stamp were stolen from an unlocked cloakroom at the Johnston Hall while the polling place was unmanned . |
| 13 | They were first styled nobiles viri only in 1256 , and a tendency towards a late crystallization of a titled noblesse at this level is found in much of south-west France , with the possible exception of the vicomté of Béarn and other areas where primogeniture and impartible inheritance were established at an earlier date . |
| 14 | Sir John Soane 's was the collection of a working architect , and the wonderful variety of objects and works of art in the museum were used as an anthology of antique architecture and decoration as well as a teaching collection . |
| 15 | Lily and the boy were standing by an old iron playhorse which had once been painted dark green but now was blotched with rust . |
| 16 | The results of the whole exercise were published in an annual White Paper and have been published every year since . |
| 17 | Was it not significant that — even following the Welsh songs and with the Welsh anthem to follow — when Her Royal Highness , The Princess of Wales , was introduced to the teams before the recent Wales versus France international the first lines of God Save the Queen were marred by an outbreak of hissing and booing ? |
| 18 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 19 | The rules that the British and the maharajas had created to protect their sport were seen as an evil of colonialism . |
| 20 | Such an interpretation would create procedural difficulties , particularly if , for example , a long adjournment were allowed of an application for renewal under the powers given by subs . |
| 21 | Later Duhamel and his team were visited by an immaculate Inspector-General who told them they really ought to plant a few flowers around the gloomy station . |
| 22 | Some of the views of this teacher were echoed by an Asian pupil in a Social Studies lesson , where the class was looking at the issue of ‘ prejudices in society ’ . |
| 23 | Large sectors of the population were left with an increased disposable income after paying for their food . |
| 24 | There were three types ( ‘ modes ’ ) , depending on whether the syllabus and/or examination were set by an examining board or a school . |
| 25 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 26 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
| 27 | The ITA was given tight control over the number , duration , placing and content of TV ads , which for most of the period were limited to an average of six minutes an hour . |
| 28 | In 1969 he became a battery commander in the 47th Light Regiment , RA , at Yeovil , though four months of this period were spent on an emergency tour with 4th Battery in Belfast . |
| 29 | On Aug. 28 two of the group were injured after an attack in Mogadishu in which three local guards were apparently killed . |
| 30 | The control group were injected in an identical manner with 100 µl volume of the histamine diluent ( PBS ) . |