Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hersant — later the ‘ bete noir ’ of many French journalists , and the press baron whom the socialists love to hate -was condemned for activities during the occupation as a collaborator in late 1945 and lost his civic rights . |
| 2 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 3 | The thick fingers were spattered with blobs of bright paint . |
| 4 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 5 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 6 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 7 | At home the television reports were prefaced with warnings about the shocking content to give viewers the option of switching off . |
| 8 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 9 | Briefly , the count of argyrophil cells and the count of raster points coinciding on the mucosa were calculated in areas of standard length and whole thickness of mucosa . |
| 10 | Suemitsu Ito , a property developer and former Itoman board member , and Ho Yung Chang , an Osaka businessman , were indicted on charges of criminal breach of trust . |
| 11 | New centres at Harpenden and Old Welwyn were established and Tutorial Classes were arranged at branches in Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City . |
| 12 | Jesus waved in the direction of one of the stalls where fish were arranged on beds of ice . |
| 13 | By the end of his first year , more that sixty village lectures had been provided , about one-third of them at Women 's Institutes , and five short courses were arranged in villages near Ipswich . |
| 14 | Daily events were arranged in cities around America and each day was given a theme . |
| 15 | The waxworks were arranged in groups beyond a rope , which was supposed to separate them from their admirers . |
| 16 | The colleges , then as now , were arranged in groups for these purposes . |
| 17 | He certainly had a number of absences , but all were explained with notes from his mother or from his doctor . |
| 18 | In common with Descartes , Boyle developed a mechanical philosophy in which the properties of bodies and the interactions between them were explained in terms of material particles and their motions . |
| 19 | Indeed , if local authorities were listed in terms of expenditure , 89 authorities would appear amongst the top 500 British companies . |
| 20 | In all , well over sixty different specific activities were listed by heads in this context , including cooking for special occasions , a paired play project with a neighbouring special school , and the development of links with local elderly people . |
| 21 | The youths , aged 15 and 16 , were remanded by magistrates at Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , on charges of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 22 | Rocks , trees , mountains , wells and springs were recognized as receptacles for spirit , displaying in season their various properties , fertilizing , therapeutic and oracular … |
| 23 | Malaria was known to be associated with marshes : it was often called marsh fever , but the connection was not understood until certain mosquitoes were recognized as carriers of the disease and as alternative hosts of plasmodia . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We were inundated with calls from members of the public and newsagents desperate for copies . |
| 25 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |
| 26 | We were inundated with entries for last issue 's Prize Wordsquare but there was little doubt about the winner at the end of the day . |
| 27 | When the court 's judgement was reviewed by the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) , Nigeria 's principal decision-making body , on Oct. 31 , however , the death sentences were commuted to terms of life imprisonment . |
| 28 | Ten of the 16 quarter-finalists were checked for drugs during the World Open in October and proved negative . |
| 29 | Prasad Pillai , secretary of the International Squash Rackets Federation , said 10 of the 16 quarter-finalists were checked for drugs during the World Open in Kuala Lumpur in October . |
| 30 | On the last occasion , a year ago , the talks were halted amid protests from Dagenham supporters because of what Mr Sparrow called ‘ insurmountable obstacles ’ . |