Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 2 | That is why there is so much stress in Luke 's account of the life of Jesus that his deeds and words were at the inspiration of the Spirit ( Luke 4:1,14 ; 10:21 ; 23:46 , etc . ) . |
| 3 | Roman 's words were like a drug , pouring over her , evoking those helpless , hypnotic feelings of need and desire and hunger all over again . |
| 4 | The words were like a slap in the face . |
| 5 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 6 | His words were like a slap across her face . |
| 7 | His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses . |
| 8 | His words were like a body-blow . |
| 9 | Dreamer spoke to her , but the words were in a different voice from the boy 's . |
| 10 | I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket . |
| 11 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 12 | As he came along the deck his legs were on a level with her eyes . |
| 13 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 14 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 15 | The stables were at the back of a courtyard and there was a crowd outside the door . |
| 16 | With the declaration of a state of emergency in four provinces of Lima department on Oct. 24 for the next 30 days [ see p. 36972 ] , one-third of the 182 provinces were under a state of emergency . |
| 17 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 18 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 19 | Halsey and his associates show that while about 50 per cent of the pupils in private primary schools were from the professional class in the age cohorts 50–59 and 30–39 years , the corresponding proportion for the youngest age cohort , 20–29 years , was almost 70 per cent . |
| 20 | Moreover , the lunar seismic signals were of a very different nature from those seen in the Earth , and this can be explained by the prevalence of a fragmented medium in the outer regions of the Moon . |
| 21 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 22 | The differences between Mirror and Sun/Star readers were in the expected directions but quite small . |
| 23 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 24 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 25 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 26 | Magill 's offices were towards the top of a modest tower on midtown Madison . |
| 27 | The NME offices were in a scabrous Carnaby Street hovel full of pre-war typewriters , hacks coughing huge clouds of non-Silk Cut type smoke and loads of drunken men and women swigging cheap wine from plastic cups . |
| 28 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 29 | Not all memorable sightings were on the seaward side of the wall . |
| 30 | Gabriel noticed how grey the hairs were on the back of Woolley 's neck . |