Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 2 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 3 | he opened his eyes and was confronted by a sheet of flame , so he closed them again and tried to undo his harness . |
| 4 | The study was performed in accordance with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki ethical guidelines and was approved by the Research and Ethical Committees of the Hospital . |
| 5 | Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes , MP for Wimbledon , who served as a medical officer in the Life Guards and was recalled in the Gulf war , protested at a reduction in the number of Foot Guard battalions . |
| 6 | Heading for the same ship again , he was once more ignored by the guards and was fed by the crew before being told to return the next day . |
| 7 | The latter attracted many high quality entries and was attended by an audience of more than 350 . |
| 8 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 9 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 10 | The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore . |
| 11 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 12 | He was greeted by 5,000 UNITA supporters and was met at the airport by government representatives . |
| 13 | This thesis , that all generation is division , continued throughout the B , C and D notebooks and was reinforced by an explicit equating , in September 1838 , of division and gemmation or budding . |
| 14 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 15 | Where the words were , as in this case , descriptive words and were used in a descriptive sense , a trade mark was not affected . |
| 16 | Gina put her thoughts into words and was rewarded by a rueful downwards tug of his beautifully chiselled mouth . |
| 17 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
| 18 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 19 | Fluid was present in both ears at three examinations over three months and was confirmed by a validated otoscopist and by tympanometry . |
| 20 | Based on a London Mild recipe from 175O , the latter was originally drunk by London fish and market porters and was named after the brewer 's dog ! |
| 21 | Traditionally Catholic provision for this age group was found in the Sixth Forms of our Grammar and Comprehensive schools and was confined in the main to A level provision . |
| 22 | The platforms were reached by ‘ Stanwood ’ fixed steps and were closed at the driver 's end by ‘ Bostwick ’ collapsible gates . |
| 23 | October 1962 had seen the gravest of Cold War crises but was followed by a growing move towards détente in Europe . |
| 24 | The puppies were given as Christmas presents but were rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 25 | Next week 's tournament was an unusual one in the golfing schedule , since it was sponsored by a number of companies and was fronted by a comedy team from television called Lumby and Titch . |
| 26 | The maquila ( in-bond ) industry was introduced along Mexico 's northern border in the mid-1960s and was extended to the rest of the country in 1972 . |
| 27 | ‘ We came across some people from Papua New Guinea who were selling handicrafts and were confronted with a boatload of western tourists — all convinced they could buy for a knock-down rate . |
| 28 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 29 | The conference was attended by scientists from both rainforest and industrialized countries and was organized by the UN 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . |
| 30 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |