Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 6 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All were given prednisolone before surgery . |
| 12 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had been a violent election campaign by post-war standards and the columns of papers like The Times were filled day after day by reports of ‘ Labour rowdyism ’ . |
| 16 | On 30 March 1992 the local authority sought and were granted leave under section 100 of the Children Act 1989 to invoke the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court to ‘ determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to the minor if he suffers a life-threatening event . ’ |
| 17 | Brennan and Carlin were granted bail on condition that they keep away from witnesses and Nolan was granted unconditional bail . |
| 18 | Another 30 people were granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 19 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 20 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 21 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 22 | As the sacrifices were performed day after day , year after year , as the Day of Atonement came and went , Israel was constantly reminded of the sin which cut them off from God 's presence . |
| 23 | History layered upon history in almost geological strata , within the levels of which were preserved corpse upon corpse upon corpse — so that the upheaving rockface of history seemed a veritable conglomerate of compressed cadavers , human , abhuman , and alien , a cosmos-spanning coral reef composed of innumerable crushed skeletons … |
| 24 | Some of the best specimens of trunks were preserved cell by cell in silica , and these show even the finest details if they are cut and polished . |
| 25 | If the figures were shown year on year , other variations would appear too . |
| 26 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 27 | If the group 's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge , they would stretch twice to the moon and back , or forty-eight times around the equator . |
| 28 | The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects . |
| 29 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 30 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |