Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While considering help and resources for Church of England communities , mention must be made of Stanbrook , a Roman Catholic abbey whose Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Dame Hildelith Cumming were amongst the pioneers of the modern use of plainchant . |
| 2 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 3 | BARBARA and NEIL TAYLOR were among the founders of the Shared Earth Trust and now work for the Trust as its project co- ordinators at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre . |
| 4 | As yet it has nothing to offer ICL users who want to retain their VMS look and feels , but BBC president , David Pikcilingis , and director of marketing , Edward Gaudet were in the UK last week to try and convince ICL there is a market for VMS emulation software on the company 's Unix-based hardware — and to lend BBC some DRS machines to port to . |
| 5 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 6 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 7 | PCs Bill Cotton and Ken McDonnell were on the scene just minutes after a woman hurled the toddler into the river . |
| 8 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 9 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 10 | Wayne McClelland and Christopher Woodhouse were at the Newbould 's factory party at Chaplins pub in Middlesbrough when the row broke out . |
| 11 | Uli Stielike , Alex Ferguson and Graeme Souness were on the short-list . |
| 12 | Tristan Garel-Jones and Alan Howarth were on the Chairman 's staff at Central Office . |
| 13 | The fact that all the workshops in WA and at least half of those in Victoria and New South Wales were for the double bed , shows the quality of knitters involved . |
| 14 | Unseen by viewers was another incident during the filming at Twycross Zoo , in Leicestershire , when Crawford and Michele Dotrice were outside the cage . |
| 15 | Christopher Biggins , Lorraine Chase , Lord Owen , Oz Clarke , Delia Smith and Bruce Oldfield were among the glitterati . |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin telephoned Mr Gorbachev and 90 minutes later Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Primakov were in the president 's office . |
| 17 | Me and Mr Dysart were in the kitchen and Morpurgo was in the garden when it 'appened . |
| 18 | ‘ You and Mr Tambiah were in the Cathedral at two thirty this morning having ’ — he glanced at his notes in disbelief — ‘ rowed across from the wherry , Amy Roy ? ’ |
| 19 | Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing . |
| 20 | Martin and Sinatra did Marriage on the Rocks ( 1965 ) , and the following year Dino and Joey Bishop were in the spoof western Texas Across the River ( 1966 ) . |
| 21 | So the rather heavy , stately movements of 2001 : A Space Odyssey to which the effects team of Kubrick himself , Wally Veevers , Douglas Trumbull , Con Pederson and Tom Howard were for the most part limited — except in the ‘ Stargate ’ section — by their simple , mechanical system ( no electronics , no computer for motion control or graphics ) were apt enough and perhaps fast enough . |
| 22 | He and his wife Brooke Hayward were on the verge of divorce — they finally split up in 1969 . |
| 23 | Peter and Gwenda Dixon were at the wrong place , at the wrong time . |
| 24 | Guyton de Morveau and L. J. Thénard were among the unsung heroes of 19th century painting . |
| 25 | Throughout the period the lowest wages in the United Kingdom were in the rural areas of East Anglia , South-West England ( where Cornwall was further hit by the decline of tin mining from the 1870s ) , the highlands of Wales and Scotland . |
| 26 | As his Latin epitaph on the title page announced , Jonson Workes were for the select few , not only serious readers but also affluent and socially well-positioned readers . |
| 27 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 28 | Greg Mackey — the Australian stand-off who turned down Hull 's contract offer last month to re-join Warrington — and Welsh scrum half Kevin Ellis were at the heart of the Wire 's classy , high speed football . |
| 29 | The last time Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were on the same set was eight years ago , for New York , New York . |
| 30 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |