Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ They were producing plans for expansion , Ed said . |
| 3 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 4 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 5 | At that date the subject-matter of the photographs was perfectly legible and the works gained their force and content from the way two or more photographs were placed side by side : a woman 's face in close-up , an ominous highway at night . |
| 6 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |
| 7 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 8 | They were kneeling back to back , their buttocks touching , and each with one end of the double-headed dildo still embedded securely in her gaping twat . |
| 9 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 10 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 11 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 12 | Victims of assault , wounding , robbery and sexual crimes were also given counselling but by far the greatest number of people ( 4,835 ) were given help after house burglaries . |
| 13 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 14 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 15 | Under the terms of the Honiara accord the rebels were given immunity from prosecution , together with the promises that the government would remove its blockade and would not attempt to re-establish its troops upon the island by force . |
| 16 | None the less , given the pressures on the BEA at the time , it is perhaps understandable that in the early years speed ( which proved elusive ) and reliability ( which they achieved ) were given priority over efficiency and economy . |
| 17 | In March food supplies purchased by the Commissariat of War for the Red Army were given priority in evacuation at the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk over ARA famine stocks . |
| 18 | They were given briefings by North or sometimes by Abrams in the Old Executive Office Building , shown photographs of airports and harbours , and made privy to mysterious movements of Soviet aircraft and ships . |
| 19 | All were given prednisolone before surgery . |
| 20 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 21 | At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company . |
| 22 | In addition , at last years AGM , the directors were given authority under Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 , until the conclusion of the 1993 AGM , to allot equity securities for cash , other than to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings , up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,234,276 being equal to 5% of the then issued ordinary share capital . |
| 23 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 24 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 25 | In the coconut groves by the beach scores of men were building prahus from scratch , some over 150 feet long . |
| 26 | The Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , reported that about 5,000 students were building barricades of garbage cans in front of the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 27 | Such was the state of concern at the Midlands plants that conveners and local members of Parliament were demanding intervention at Government level . |
| 28 | Moreover , the use of recall as a measure of memory may have meant that subjects were using thoughts about risk as a retrieval cue , indeed they may have assumed that it was this information that the experimenter was most interested in . |
| 29 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 30 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |