Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , as needs changed , new words were coined for new situations and were ‘ Latinised ’ to fit more easily into the documents being called for . |
| 2 | The words were stored in various sub-dictionaries containing vocabulary words and suffixes . |
| 3 | The words were uttered with devastating sincerity . |
| 4 | The words were uttered with such venom that Sabine 's head jerked back in shock . |
| 5 | Words were painted along each arm , but she was too far away to be able to make them out . |
| 6 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 7 | Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle . |
| 8 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 9 | The words were spoken with extreme bitterness . |
| 10 | And that applied whether the words were spoken on separate occasions or all together . |
| 11 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 12 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 13 | Other aspects were discussed in previous chapters . |
| 14 | Written guidelines were wanted for all tasks so that there are no recriminations when things go wrong . |
| 15 | Guidelines were introduced on 1 January 1990 . |
| 16 | Complexes were separated by non-denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis , dried and autoradiographed . |
| 17 | The complexes were separated in non-denaturing agarose gels , cut out , incubated at 60 C with running buffer and separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( 18 ) . |
| 18 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |
| 19 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 20 | Three fans were placed in this category on the basis of lengthy observation and in accord with what were taken to be the appropriate criteria for judging such people . |
| 21 | Two fans were charged with public order offences , but a police spokesman confirmed that no action had been taken against Speedie . |
| 22 | This is probably because the fans were encased in impermeable carbonate muds and also buried at considerable depth below the exposure surfaces from where the leaching solutions originated . |
| 23 | How did people think that prebiotic organic compounds were formed before this discovery in outer space ? |
| 24 | Stock solutions of test compounds were prepared in absolute alcohol and stored at -20°C until use . |
| 25 | With the idea of competitive antagonism as a guide and the success of PAS as an encouragement , many other compounds were investigated in many laboratories . |
| 26 | The great splayed fairings of their target 's legs were painted with ochre volcanos spraying hot scarlet lava like blood from an artery . |
| 27 | Long , muscled legs were shown to full advantage by a pair of crisp khaki shorts . |
| 28 | Most of the coastlands were brought under Roman rule during the Illyrian wars of Octavian in 35–33 BC . |
| 29 | The first would tell of the late Roman empire and its fate after the reorganization by the Emperors Diocletian and Constantine , until most of its Western provinces were superseded by barbarian kingdoms . |
| 30 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |