Example sentences of "were the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lecture periods could be used for outside visitors , or for specific and relevant accounts by teachers who did not normally participate in the work ; examples were the playing of records of part of Haydn 's Creation with explanation and commentary , by a teacher made specially available , and a talk on Red Indian tribes by a visitor from a local museum , together with overhead transparencies , slides and objects from the museum collection . |
| 2 | The principal activities of the Association during the year were the promotion of standards in the practice of good catering and accomodation management , and the advancement of education and training in the hotel catering and institutional management industry . |
| 3 | What were the kind of conditions of the people who w who went back in , did they go in bec because of they had , erm say large families or something like that and they had difficulty trying to make ends meet ? |
| 4 | The two main reforms announced by Chidambaram were the withdrawal of subsidies on exports and the linking of foreign-exchange allocations for imports to export sales . |
| 5 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 6 | Among its proposals were the payment of fees by industrialized nations to countries with tropical forests , for " carbon absorption services " . |
| 7 | They were the equivalent of tombstones on land : they marked the actual graves . |
| 8 | Bought at the Ephemera stall for framing , and hanging in the ‘ 121 ’ office of the Principal Clerk – were the Order of Proceedings in the Hall of Assembly on the occasion of the first Assembly after the Union of the Churches in 1929 ; and also the Order of Service for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Thanksgiving , held in the Assembly Hall in May 1897 . |
| 9 | Especially revealing were the warnings from officials to their masters that as far " as possible mention of the British should be avoided " . |
| 10 | And on top of all that were the meetings of groupings from around the globe , with early morning delegation meetings to talk tactics ( and more of same late each evening ) . |
| 11 | At the core of the Chicago School 's analysis were the moves of immigrants from European societies to American cities and , once established in a town such as Chicago , the successful households progressing from the inner urban areas to the suburbs . |
| 12 | Particularly successful aspects of the talk were the invitation to contributions from the floor , which led to several interesting points being made , and the mix of old photographs from the heyday of steam with modern ones mostly taken by himself . |
| 13 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 14 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 15 | They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace . |
| 16 | Others were the establishment of committees under Mr Justice Uthwatt to examine the crucial question of compensation for planning development and the Scott committee on the future of the countryside . |
| 17 | It was alleged that these were the graves of victims of the occupying Soviet forces after the Second World War rather than of Nazi victims . |
| 18 | Even by the end of the 1920s there were the beginnings of calls for a more directly interventionist role by government and some deliberate trade and industrial policy for the future . |
| 19 | Other matters to which the secretary-general addressed himself were the plight of prisoners of war , a field in which the International Red Cross was also active , and the use of chemical weapons . |
| 20 | Secondly , the new states , like their predecessors , were the product of struggles among diverse social groups and classes , and the different forms which their political regimes assumed depended upon the outcome of such struggles . |
| 21 | the Rev. Mastin in his ‘ History of the Rebellion ’ , reports ‘ The enemy left no manner of cruelty unexercised that day ; and in the pursuit killed about 100 women , whereof some were the wives of officers of quality ’ . |
| 22 | They were the uniforms of soldiers during the revolution , in St Petersburg where it all started . ’ |
| 23 | As the principal original aims of the BDDA were the founding of missions in neglected areas , the establishment of a pension fund for the benefit of the aged and infirm , and the co-operation of all who were concerned for the welfare of the deaf and dumb , it is , perhaps , surprising that the BDDA did not take off more successfully and that the great majority of deaf and dumb people stood aloof from it . |
| 24 | There were the marks of fingers round his neck . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's events were the culmination of weeks of trauma that have dogged Mrs Mellor since the Minister 's steamy affair with actress Antonia de Sancha was exposed . |
| 26 | These were the sorts of stories to be read in the pamphlets sold beside the Lac de Gaube for years after the event by the promoters of the tourist trade . |
| 27 | But in the 1960s the gate control theory of pain showed that pain provoking messages proceeding toward the head were the result of interactions between inhibitory and excitatory effects from the periphery which mixed in spinal mechanism . |
| 28 | Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals . |