Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 2 | The larger troops , plausibly , were developed as protection from diurnal predators . |
| 3 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 4 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 5 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 6 | From that time , a long series of rigorous studies were developed in cognizance of the methodological problems , many of the recent ones using the WFS surveys and computerized data processing and analytical techniques ( see for example , Wray , 1971 ; Fedrick and Adelstein , 1973 ; Wolfers and Scrimshaw , 1975 ; Spiers and Wang , 1976 ; Gray , 1981 ; Baldion , 1981 ; Swenson , 1981 ; Carlaw and Vaidya , 1983 ; Fortney and Higgins , 1983 ; Hobcraft , et al , 1983 ; Martin et al , 1983 ; Cleland and Sathar , 1984 ; De Sweemer , 1984 ; Palloni and Tienda , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | ProActive 's products were developed in collaboration with Mohr general partner , William Davidow . |
| 8 | Originally , these were developed in connection with university extension courses in the late-nineteenth century and established the tradition of summer meetings for study at Oxford , Cambridge and at other universities . |
| 9 | Three small black kids had gathered around Armstrong 's bonnet and were gazing in wonder at the gently vibrating engine . |
| 10 | Like the triumphal arches these were erected in honour of victorious generals . |
| 11 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 12 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 13 | Relative retention times and response factors were calculated by comparison of authentic standards to coprostanol . |
| 14 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 15 | Some threatened evictions , it should be added , were arranged by collusion between farmers and workers in order to force the hand of local authorities who otherwise would not admit tied cottage tenants to their housing waiting lists . |
| 16 | The photographs were arranged behind glass in a small anteroom above the door of which was printed the legend : ‘ The Martyrs of Hama ’ . |
| 17 | The hon. and learned Gentleman makes much of forecasts that he claims were arranged in line with the timing of a possible general election . |
| 18 | Margaret , daughter of the illustrious Lord Florent Count of Holland and Mathilde , daughter of Henri Duke of Brabant , Sister of William , King of Germany , being forty-two years of age , was delivered on the Friday before Easter , at nine o'clock in the morning , in the year 1276 , of 365 babies male and female which ( in the presence of several great lords and gentlemen ) were arranged in front of the font and were all baptized by a bishop , the males being christened the same name , namely Jean , and the females Elizabeth . |
| 19 | This patient was , however , excluded from the study since her symptoms were explained by infection with Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 20 | The trials were explained in detail to all the local , regional , and district authorities and paramount chiefs , who gave their approval . |
| 21 | Both were remanded on bail for reports . |
| 22 | Sixteen men including three Liverpool Police officers were remanded on bail at Liverpool this week accused of conspiring to distribute tickets for the Irish sweepstake . |
| 23 | ( First Edition ) Nine men arrested during a police raid on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in north London were remanded on bail by Haringey magistrates on charges ranging from assault to threatening behaviour and obstruction . |
| 24 | TWO men were remanded on bail by Rhuddlan Magistrates yesterday on a charge of passing two counterfeit £10 notes . |
| 25 | They were remanded on bail by Barnsley magistrates until next month . |
| 26 | Manageress Patima Heron , 24 , assistant manager Lance Green , 20 , and hostess Helen Calderwood , 19 , were remanded on bail until March 11 . |
| 27 | They were remanded in custody at Chertsey , Surrey . |
| 28 | Both were remanded in custody for sentence . |
| 29 | The two men were remanded in custody for a week . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , two men accused of the murder , Paul Patrick Magee , 42 , and Michael O'Brien , 28 , were remanded in custody for four weeks amid tight security at Old Thames Magistrates Court in London yesterday . |