Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 In 1456 Djuradj Branković died , and his squabbling successors were pushed across the Danube when the Turks took Smederovo in 1459 .
2 The leg irons used on Orton Chirwa were made by the Birmingham company , Hiatts ( see p4 ) .
3 They have lost not only Graham Marshall , the international back-row forward whose right-knee ligaments were torn in the January match against Watsonians , but also Scott Nichol , the enterprising , fast midfield back , who broke an ankle in the same game .
4 Paired data for laser energy per month required and for frequency of endoscopic treatment before and after radiotherapy were analysed with the Wilcoxon signed rank test .
5 Both styles were created by the La Moda Styling team .
6 Both signals were sent to the Pentagon , the second one also going to the White House .
7 Next , sightings were reported in the Philippines and Singapore and Malaysia .
8 Questions about the band 's future were fuelled by a Derry Brownson quote featured in the Daily Mirror which originated in a European magazine : ‘ We may not be around much longer .
9 Dorli and Lieserl Oppenheimer were met by the Lerskys , friends of their parents , a Palestinian photographer and his wife who appreciated the traumas the children were suffering .
10 By the end of 1978 when the new Powick replacement units were opened in the Worcester and Kidderminster areas , 343 patients remained in Powick .
11 A wide range of such organizations were affiliated to the UDC during the war years , with a collective membership of 650,000 .
12 To begin with , the main pastures were bought by the Durham Wildlife Trust ( see Chapter 8 ) and will be protected for all time .
13 Single photon pulses were detected with an EMI APED amplifier discriminator ( Thorn EMI , Ruislip , England ) , and these pulses were recorded with a frequency counter .
14 Consequently , he plundered the sanctuaries of Delphi , Epidaurus and Olympia , and gold and silver were collected throughout the Peloponnese to be melted down for coin to pay his armies .
15 And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest !
16 Initial ozone concentrations were taken from a mid-December climatology .
17 Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade .
18 Newmill-1 followed in 1971 and reached 6500 ft in the Lower Permian Sandstone , near the top of which it encountered traces of gas ; further traces were found in the Sherwood Sandstone .
19 Metropolitan and other English detectives were seconded to Northern Ireland and a number of English recruits were enrolled into the RUC .
20 The bulk of the English fleet was away across the Atlantic and a mere 39 ships under Sir Charles Hardy were patrolling off the Scillies to guard the Western Approaches .
21 Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads .
22 Athenian style temples and halls were built by the Welland , probably with long colonnades of beautiful fluted Doric columns carved by Greek masons in the local limestone .
23 United Sabah National Organization ( USNO , Sakaran Bin Dandai pres. ) ; the Sabah-based AKAR and LDP were admitted to the BN in July 1991 [ see p. 38344 ] .
24 He and Pat were walking through a London street when a red Royal Mail van shuddered to a halt beside them .
25 Some of the pictures were sold at the Stourhead heirlooms sale at Christie 's in 1883 .
26 Most of the pictures were taken in the Sodwana Bay area .
27 During the period 1978–88 , 112 consecutive patients with an adenocarcinoma in a columnar lined lower oesophagus were referred to the Rotterdam Oesophageal Tumour Study Group for evaluation and treatment .
28 These modified C-terminal fragments were subcloned into the NdeI and BamHI sites of the His-tagged expression vector , pET15b .
29 ( Largely unprocessed 1mm sized fragments were recovered from the Revelstoke site ; only spherules of vaporized and recondensed material were recovered in the case of Tunguska .
30 In 1949 , cross-border influences were felt in the Northern Ireland elections .
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