Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Lee — possibly one of the candidates for Stockport 's School in 1534 ( he was born in Baguley , three miles from Stockport ) -was appointed Master at Cromer on 27th October 1534 . |
| 2 | A chain of fishermen were unloading baskets of crabs from a boat moored against the quay ; beyond this others sat mending their nets in the sunshine , and further along signs extolled holidaymakers to experience the splendours of deep-sea fishing . |
| 3 | In the third division , Hereford United were seeing stars at Gillingham after letting in 2 early goals . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 6 | ‘ They were producing plans for expansion , Ed said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 14 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 15 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 16 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 17 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 20 | In one experiment birds were given choices between members of the opposite sex that were either familiar siblings , novel siblings , novel first-cousins , novel third-cousins , or novel unrelated individuals . |
| 21 | The Alans , who were given land around Valence in c. 440 , and in Gallia Ulterior two years later , were the second . |
| 22 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 23 | Before the change , they were given photographs of republicans to take with them on patrols . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | None of the 5HT antagonists or the 5HT 4 agonist , SC53116 , significantly altered ICJ transit when they were given ip during ia infusion of saline ( Table II ) . |
| 29 | All were given prednisolone before surgery . |
| 30 | All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers . |