Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 2 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 3 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 4 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 5 | Percentages of identity and similarity between proteins in the multiple alignments were calculated with program DISTANCES ( 22 ) . |
| 6 | Five police officers in New York City were indicted on murder charges in March , following the death of a 21-year-old Hispanic man on Feb. 5 . |
| 7 | But the majority of classes were arranged at District branches and the statistics are considered representative of the proportion of occupational groups within the District . |
| 8 | A competition with a Hebridean holiday as a prize was run in conjunction with the exhibition , a more specialized competition for schools was organized with support from the Royal Bank of Scotland , and private views were arranged for specialist bodies and organizations . |
| 9 | The training programmes that were available were arranged by government departments and took various forms : basic courses over nine or ten evenings ; one-day conferences on government information regarding grants , subsidies , etc. ; conferences on plant protection and disease control , field studies and some practical courses . |
| 10 | IT 'S strange but true : the earliest ancestors of the video camcorder are to be found in holes deep below ground which were inhabited by cave dwellers long before the dawn of recorded history . |
| 11 | Later , in Victorian times , birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers , by taxidermists and by egg collectors . |
| 12 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 13 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 14 | A number of the cast including Julie Goodyear were delayed in traffic jams . |
| 15 | The police were also being urged to take action against the practice of ‘ throwing coloured lights ’ from coaches that were returning from holiday excursions , and there was a growing concern about a wave of incidents in which obstacles — sometimes quite large ones — were placed on railway lines by people described as ‘ wreckers ’ . |
| 16 | The gut sacs were placed in incubation flasks containing 30 ml of a similar solution to that of the serosal compartment . |
| 17 | As there was no longer room for the resistances under the seats , they were placed in metal cabinets under the stairs . |
| 18 | The strips were placed in organ baths containing 20 ml of Krebs solution at 37°C continuously bubbled with O 2 : CO 2 ( 95%:5% ) . |
| 19 | For 24 hours before sacrifice at 32 weeks , animals were placed in metabolism cages and a 24 hour stool collection was performed for faecal fat measurement . |
| 20 | The same is true of victims of the holocaust who were placed in concentration camps . |
| 21 | Decks of cards , held together ( sometimes precariously ) by elastic bands were placed in input trays , collected by operators , and fed into the computer through a card-reader . |
| 22 | Under the leadership of General Torrijos they attempted a landing in Spain in 1831 , but were crushed by government forces . |
| 23 | Yesterday 's crucial talks were guarded by riot police with armoured trucks and water cannon , following fears of a major demonstration by French fishermen who are also seething over the level of imports flooding the EC . |
| 24 | Banded and coloured offspring were reared in laboratory tanks ( from capsules laid by banded parents ) on a diet exclusively of barnacles ( mainly Elminius ) . |
| 25 | Instructions for these purposes were given through correspondent banks in London and Singapore . |
| 26 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 27 | ‘ Thanks to these people 's scaremongering , we were plagued by death threats , ’ says Blackie . |
| 28 | By 1980 the river stank , the beaches nearby were covered at times by blobs of grease , fat and oils , and thousands of sea birds were poisoned by lead compounds released from a chemical works . |
| 29 | I hope that the true and forceful points that my hon. Friend made were heard by Opposition Members and that they will take note of the success of British industry . |
| 30 | And in England student revolutionaries were gathering in television studios to frighten nervous presenters like Frank Mackenzie . |