Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |
| 2 | Earlier in the chapter , reasons were given why the mythology surrounding this event should be questioned . |
| 3 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 4 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 5 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 6 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 7 | The burdens were carried on the back , the weight being supported by a tump-line across the forehead . |
| 8 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 9 | He recorded verdicts of accidental death and urged anyone who dumps a fridge or freezer to make sure the door hinges were smashed so the tragedy could n't be repeated . |
| 10 | Amongst the curiosities was a series of Tradescant portraits , which were hung on the gallery walls . |
| 11 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 12 | However , in the presence of NCp7 and RT , much higher levels of cDNA were produced ( lanes 7–12 ) and 3–5 additional bands were seen when the products were exposed to UV . |
| 13 | The consequences of this dependence were seen when the flow was cut off so abruptly after 1982 . |
| 14 | As quality feature films were produced so the anxieties and introspection could give way to congratulation and to a new hyperbole . |
| 15 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 16 | If a 20 Megaton bomb were used today the damage would be incalculable . |
| 17 | First larger vehicles were used so the tons per load figure was higher . |
| 18 | Up to 60 staff at S and S Press in Abingdon were told yesterday the company was going out of business and their services were no longer required . |
| 19 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 20 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 21 | Scoring : A the end of the 50 experimental trials , all reaction times were crossed out the response sheet for incorrect answers , excluding them from further analysis . |
| 22 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 23 | I have some illustrative figures in front of me erm which I I thought a question of this nature might , might crop up , erm th the figures are n't absolutely accurate , they were pulled off the file very quickly and er they may be out by er er er er a small amount , but they , they certainly illustrate the point . |
| 24 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 25 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 26 | Indictments on fraud charges were brought in the United States ( i ) on July 1 against Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz , chief operating officer of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia ; ( ii ) on July 29 against Clark Clifford ( US Defence Secretary in 1968-69 ) and Robert Altman ; and ( iii ) on Sept. 17 against William Batastini , Ghaith Pharaon , Tariq Jamil and Swaleh Naqvi [ see also pp. 38569 ; 38737 ] . |
| 27 | Although criminal proceedings were brought in the Alexander Howden case , no prosecutions have followed the PCW affair where $50 million was siphoned away from Lloyds ' investors , and related underwriting losses were estimated at 230 million . |
| 28 | To the west of the Ticino lay the high Alps , and those entering Italy from that direction were funnelled down the Aosta valley towards Mediolanum . |
| 29 | For almost twenty years after that various proposals were run up the flagpole , mostly to unsaluting generals . |
| 30 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |