Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [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 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 7 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 8 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 9 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Alans , who were given land around Valence in c. 440 , and in Gallia Ulterior two years later , were the second . |
| 15 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 16 | Before the change , they were given photographs of republicans to take with them on patrols . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | All were given prednisolone before surgery . |
| 23 | All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers . |
| 24 | 81 Hampdens , Whitleys and Wellingtons from 3 , 4 and 5 Groups were given targets in Berlin . |
| 25 | We were given subsidies on cattle and sheep as well . |
| 26 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 27 | At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company . |
| 28 | In addition , at last years AGM , the directors were given authority under Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 , until the conclusion of the 1993 AGM , to allot equity securities for cash , other than to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings , up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,234,276 being equal to 5% of the then issued ordinary share capital . |
| 29 | What was witnessed by British troops , however , was the initial treatment by Tito 's partisans of the Croats surrendered around Bleiburg , including many civilians who were marched north-east through Austria towards the Yugoslav frontier near Lavamund . |
| 30 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |