Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sought to prove that , if an aerodrome or transport park was the objective of an operation , then the destruction of 50 aircraft or units of transport was more easily accomplished by a sub-unit of five men than by a force of 200 men . |
| 2 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 3 | But the US has said that the prospect of General Noriega at large with access to secret funds and free to organise revenge or counter-coups or de-stabilisation in Panama was simply unacceptable . |
| 4 | One explanation that they discovered was that the policy , rule , or system in place was often violated in the name of meeting a deadline or breaking a blockage . |
| 5 | Neither Mary Tudor nor Mary of Guise was much affected . |
| 6 | To these self-appointed custodians of public morals it was even more appalling that those very classes who should in theory be the hope and backbone of republicanism were equally infected by the general tone of light-mindedness : |
| 7 | By 1950 the dividing line between East and West in Europe was clearly drawn but war on the Continent was unlikely . |
| 8 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 9 | As the area still had very little industry , the profit generated by trade and agriculture around Danzig was hardly ever invested locally . |
| 10 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 11 | Belgrade Radio said several Croatian-populated villages were flattened in air attacks and part of Kupres was badly damaged in artillery bombardments . |
| 12 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 13 | In general the quality of discussion and level of participation were highly praised but in some cases it was thought that staff , who were unfamiliar with validation , were unsure of their role in the event . |
| 14 | Bankers cards and £27 in cash were also taken . |
| 15 | Staff and prisoners at Maidstone were acutely aware that , in a training prison , they were relatively well off compared to the overcrowded local prisons , whose barren regimes often mean prisoners being locked in their cells twenty-three hours each day . |
| 16 | Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask , and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body , which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head . |
| 17 | The glen and side of hill were closely becoming blanketed with a fine wet mist which soared in from the crest of the mountain , to shelter on the leeward side . |
| 18 | Adding to this was the fact , as they saw it , that potentially revolutionary working class families and heads of household were actually developing petit bourgeois values . |
| 19 | After surgery patients were not routinely endoscoped and injection of varices was only carried out if and when bleeding occurred . |
| 20 | Personality was rarely mentioned explicitly , but sometimes comparisons were made with the person 's self and aspects of conversation were sometimes described . |
| 21 | At home , improvements in urban sanitation and hygiene in hospitals were gradually raising health standards . |
| 22 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 23 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 24 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 25 | The heathlands to the west and south-west of London were drastically affected by clearance of their natural woodland , and their thin , sandy , sterile soils are the result of the earlier soil being destroyed . |
| 26 | The medieval class system was imposed on England by the Normans but this imposition of feudal ranks and hierarchies of allegiance was never complete and proved relatively shortlived . |
| 27 | The King and queen of Denmark were there . |
| 28 | In front of the King , the marshes and mud-flats of Earnbank were already filled with struggling men as his own dismounted vanguard disposed of the last of the fifty intruders from the Forth landing . |
| 29 | Over the ensuing days traffic and commuters in London were seriously disrupted by hoax bomb warning calls which led to station closures . |
| 30 | The Committee discussed the project at length , and agreed to the grant on the condition that the budget , literature and question of sponsorship was carefully looked at . |