Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WEST Belfast husband and wife were remanded in court today on a terror charge . |
| 2 | Several other ways of measuring the effect of bail on rates of offending are considered in this survey , as is the question whether more crime would be prevented if more people were remanded in custody rather than given bail . |
| 3 | Over the same period of time the number of defendants committed for trial at the Crown Court who were remanded in custody also increased from around 13,000 to 21,000 ( having been as high as 24,000 in 1997 ) . |
| 4 | A MAN and a woman were remanded in custody yesterday in connection with a shotgun incident in Braintree . |
| 5 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 6 | In practice , many clergy found it as difficult to collect the full tithes as the Inland Revenue and Excise do their latter-day exactions ; increasingly the payments were commuted for cash rather than kind . |
| 7 | It is more likely that the waters of Marah referred to in Exodus 15:23–25 were contaminated with iron rather than algae as Dr S. Fletcher suggest ( Chem . |
| 8 | In 1810 the management of the whole of the Crown 's landed estates were placed by statute under three Commissioners of Woods , Forests and Land Revenues , to whom all the powers of the two Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests were transferred . |
| 9 | The first two were placed in shrubbery only yards from the main buildings of Shell 's Seafield House offices at Hill of Rubislaw and BP Expro 's main headquarters at Dyce on the outskirts of the city . |
| 10 | Two elaborate fake bombs were placed in shrubbery only yards from the main buildings of Shell 's Seafield House offices at Hill of Rubislaw and BP Expro 's main headquarters at Dyce on the outskirts of the city . |
| 11 | Pat McCourt of Craigavon and her three sisters were born in Portsmouth , but were placed in care soon after the death of their mother . |
| 12 | Three former stations , Teignmouth in Devon , Tobermory on Mull and Courttown in the Irish Republic , were reinstated following period when a lifeboat had not been required . |
| 13 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 14 | Three men were crushed to death under seven thousand tonnes of rock . |
| 15 | On a summons issued by solicitors for the interim government of Somalia , the Republic of Somalia was substituted as the plaintiff in the proceedings and directions were given for payment out of the money paid into court to the solicitors instructed by the interim government , unless cause was shown why it should not be so paid out . |
| 16 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |
| 17 | The houses were shaded clear against the ground : on the hills he could see the white lines of the new walls they were building like netting all over the high ground ; from the direction of the lake he heard an occasional voice , as sharp as the crack of a pistol . |
| 18 | Sixty seven patients ( 22% ) were treated with diet alone , and they had significantly lower mean random haemoglobin A 1 values compared with the 155 ( 50% ) receiving oral hypoglycaemic therapy and the 86 ( 28% ) taking insulin . |
| 19 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 20 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 21 | We were to go on foot so as not to disturb the tranquillity . |
| 22 | In Meshkinpour 's study all patients had manometry performed routinely in addition to an oesophagogram , whereas in our study most patients were referred for manometry only when prior investigations had failed to identify the cause of their symptoms . |
| 23 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 24 | By the mid-Eighties we were singing in English too , and we began to catch on in English-speaking countries . |
| 25 | Table 1 ) were exposed to weathering early in 1979 . |
| 26 | If the recent pattern of population change observed in many developing countries were to continue without modification then , in a few decades , there would be some impossibly large populations . |
| 27 | In one sense the argument is tautological , since if less were consumed at home more would be available for export . |
| 28 | They were intended for recreation rather than instruction and supplied by A. Gardner , a bookseller in Paisley , who seems to have had a free hand in their selection , Coats dictating the general policy . |
| 29 | Her eyes were filled with worry again . |
| 30 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |