Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of last year 's Q.T. days was shown by improved attendance figures , a livelier and more positive attitude , by those attending , and some very good feed-back . |
| 2 | The first of the Wills titles was granted for political services but the family members served all parties . |
| 3 | In the early 1820s the comparative material gathered from the United States by Liverpool abolitionists was used for parliamentary purposes . |
| 4 | The body of Martyn Joseph Willians was discovered on Great Western Way in the Newton Farm area of Hereford yesterday morning . |
| 5 | A significant upward revision to Sanga Sanga reserves was reported by independent engineering consultants DeGolyer and MacNaughton , resulting in an increase in net reserves to LASMO of 64 mmboe . |
| 6 | Recently a French girl who was the victim of a ( thankfully rare ) brutal attack on the Guernsey cliffs was transported to intensive care facilities in this way . |
| 7 | A cap badge with the Guildford arms was continued in bi-metal form after 1902 with the King 's Crown ; the only radical variation being made after the Second World War when a beret badge of about ⅔rd size was introduced . |
| 8 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |
| 9 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 10 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |