Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] romans " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were known to the Romans , but no one afterwards used them until the Dover Road was given mile-marks in 1663 . |
| 2 | Ammianus also thought that they were descended from the Romans . |
| 3 | Mikvas are being excavated in Israel , and at the top of Massada where the Jewish zealots were besieged by the Romans around two thousand years ago , a mikva has been discovered among the ruins . |
| 4 | Buxton Springs were discovered by the Romans in 79AD , and they believed that the water had special health-giving properties . |
| 5 | From then on the year was regarded by the Romans as beginning on that day . |
| 6 | The grandson of SATURN , Faunus was worshipped by the Romans as a fertility god . |
| 7 | Epona was adopted by the Romans as a goddess of horses and mules . |
| 8 | ‘ It was built by the Romans for our Yorkshire lass Cartimandua — ‘ |
| 9 | The taking of booty from conquered cities was called by the Romans deditio ( surrender ) , a process in which captured weapons , money , works of art or other valuables were dedicated to the gods at Rome , thereby giving divine sanction to the imposition of Roman rule . |
| 10 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 11 | The rise of Christianity was opposed by the Romans , and most famously by Nero , whose persecutions of the earliest Christians started around 64AD . |
| 12 | An example of the political interpretation of coin portraiture can be seen in the fine portraits of a certain Tarcondimotus , who was appointed by the Romans to be the ruler of a small part of south-east Asia Minor in the late first century BC , and subsequently given the title ‘ king ’ by Mark Antony . |
| 13 | As Posidonius remarks in passing , he was " the father of Bituis who was dethroned by the Romans " . |
| 14 | South of the village is an area known locally as ‘ Hills and Holes ’ — deserted and overgrown quarry pits where the coarse limestone called ‘ ragstone ’ was quarried by the Romans and widely used in medieval times . |
| 15 | Easily Accessible : Buxton was discovered by the Romans who named it rather poetically ‘ the spa of the Blue Waters ’ . |
| 16 | Six years later , in 70 AD , this new Temple was destroyed by the Romans . |
| 17 | After Jerusalem was razed by the Romans in A.D. 70 , Israel 's organised resistance was systematically extirpated , except for the fortress of Masada on the Dead Sea . |
| 18 | Carthaginian culture , on the other hand , did not decline : it was murdered by the Romans , who , quite symbolically , donated the main library of Carthage to the Numidian Kings ( Plin . |