Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pardons were granted , among others , to ( i ) 212 prisoners on Oct. 24 , 1988 ; ( ii ) 884 prisoners on Jan. 11 , 1989 ; and ( iii ) 347 prisoners on Aug. 20 , 1989 , 178 of whom had been " public " or " semi-public " employees involved in the widespread disturbances in 1978-79 and 1981 ( see pp. 29803 ; 31377-78 ) and 50 of whom were reportedly supporters of the Ila al Amam Marxist-Leninist grouping . |
| 2 | All of them were either accounts of measures taken by the pope , or — in the letters to the king of Jerusalem and the count of Flanders — recommendations of obedience to the papal policy . |
| 3 | In 1285 in Norfolk they offended the church not only by sitting in church courts and gathering evidence there for indictments of the clergy but also by hearing cases of violence and defamation against the clergy and matrimonial and testamentary suits , all of which were traditionally matters for church courts . |
| 4 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 5 | Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water . |