Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 3 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 4 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 5 | Before the change , they were given photographs of republicans to take with them on patrols . |
| 6 | All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers . |
| 7 | The Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , reported that about 5,000 students were building barricades of garbage cans in front of the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gooch even turned to the rarely-seen legspin of Robin Smith either side of lunch as England strained for the breakthrough , but Wright and Jones were proving models of self-denial . |
| 10 | There are some references to other forms of metal-working in the country ; most notably in the early sixteenth century the areas around Dudley and Birmingham in the Midlands , were becoming centres of ironwork , and there were further developments in such manufacturing at Sheffield where its history goes back further . |
| 11 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 12 | Apparently Sir William along with various VIP 's were to inspect examples of railway infrastructure in the Mid-Wales area that are in need of renovation , and then decide on which are most worthy of financial aid . |
| 13 | Around the frames were hung walls of lath and plaster , with the upper storeys occasionally protected by hung tiles , and the roofs covered in the same materials or , in some cases , with Horsham Slate . |
| 14 | No train services were operating west of Swansea , West Glamorgan , and the main rail link between the South-West and London was again broken when the River Exe flooded at a bridge outside Exeter . |
| 15 | Millions of soldiers were made prisoners of war , and many other Germans were interned under the Allied policy of ‘ denazification ’ whilst their activities under the Third Reich were investigated . |
| 16 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 17 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 18 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 19 | In September he was appointed royal hydrographer and he and his wife and children were made denizens of England under royal warrant . |
| 20 | Yeltsin was given the authority to appoint people to local government , and to suspend the actions of the presidents of autonomous republics within the Russian Federation , who were made heads of executive power within those republics . |
| 21 | The chairman of the Central Authority was paid £8500 , his deputy chairmen £5000 and other full-time members £3500 , while Area Board chairmen were offered salaries of £4000 . |
| 22 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 23 | They were selling bits of turf to keep going . |
| 24 | Police were investigating reports of windows being broken at the pub . |
| 25 | Now , as they shoved their way through the audience , two wooden chairs were knocked over and there were drawn breaths of outrage . |
| 26 | In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure . |
| 27 | The Mid-Craven Fault is so deep that if you were to look south of Malham for the limestone that you see on Gordale Scar you would have to drill many thousands of feet below the earth 's surface before you came to it . |
| 28 | Its planning figures up to 1980–1 were endorsed , the CATs were authorized to appoint Academic Advisory Committees to advise on how best to obtain university status and to assist in the planning of their future development , the CNAA was established in 1964 , and the teacher training colleges were renamed Colleges of Education and were encouraged to work with the universities to introduce the new BEd degree . |
| 29 | ( It 's always spelt N O E , and answer has an E. ) One does have this feeling that people were getting wind of Mr Edward Heath walking down the street , and were going out the back doors of the house . |
| 30 | ( All the great religious teachers were born East of Suez ! ) |