Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 2 | Somewhere not far away , surrounded by jungle , Chloe and the sepoy lay side by side and rotted , or were eaten by the specialist animals of the night . |
| 3 | They submitted ‘ even when they had no desire for sex or were repulsed by the idea . ’ |
| 4 | May I and my right hon. and hon. Friends join in expressing sympathy for those who died or were injured in the atrocity in County Tyrone on Friday ? |
| 5 | A copy of the initial writ requires to be served on ( 1 ) the clerk of the licensing board and ( 2 ) all parties who appeared or were represented at the hearing including the applicant if the appeal is by an objector , at the same time as the initial writ is lodged with the sheriff clerk or as soon as may be thereafter ( para. 3,5.1. 197711622 . |
| 6 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 7 | Campaign to reinstate members who resigned or were terminated during the recession.E |
| 8 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 9 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 10 | Some women worked away from home and yet in " team " with their menfolk , husbands or fathers , or were included in the " bargains " made by their husbands . |
| 11 | When Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York in 1899 , he found that around I per cent of the poor were old people , largely because most working-class people worked until they died , or were incarcerated in the workhouse . |
| 12 | Thus , about beliefs and values in science education , Michael Poole writes : In science education and in other areas of the curriculum more help needs to be given to students to enable them to discern where beliefs and values are located , how to spot where they follow from the subject matter or were imported at the beginning , what are the available options among them and what are appropriate criteria for testing their truth-claims and adjudicating between the ones on offer . |
| 13 | Studies were already available or were published with the support of , or in association with WACC , including those by Peter G Horsfield , Hugo Assman and Stewart Hoover . |
| 14 | The majority of items required on an everyday basis such as food , clothing , building materials , fuel and water , were either to be found locally or were produced on the farm . |
| 15 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 16 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 17 | The reassertion of the state/civil society opposition is documented by the fact that all of the above names either quit or were excluded from the Akademie in 1933 . |
| 18 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 19 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 20 | So far as Orientalism in particular and European knowledge of other societies in general have been concerned , historicism meant that one human history uniting humanity either culminated in or was observed from the vantage point of Europe , or the West … |
| 21 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 22 | Alternatively , the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets and arose or was derived from the places where those assets were when sold or licensed and remain ; all outside Hong Kong . |
| 23 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |
| 24 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 26 | Yet the skinheads neither created nor were created by the ‘ end ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Precatory ’ neither ( as in English law ) implied caution about the clarity of intention , nor was used as the touchstone for deciding whether a disposition was a trust . |
| 28 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 29 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 30 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |