Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [noun] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rampton read out a military report which said that parts of Austria under the Tito forces , to whom the Yugoslavs were to be repatriated , were being ruled by terror . |
| 2 | The ensuing general election returned a House of Commons in which the reformers were in a large majority . |
| 3 | The Greeks spent several centuries under the heel of the Ottoman empire , which allowed them no form of self-government except in church matters ( about which the Turks were on the whole remarkably liberal ) . |
| 4 | These virtues were contrasted by Octavia Hill , the housing reformer and champion of the cadet principle , with the ‘ ill educated , dirty , quarrelsome , drunken , improvident , unrefined , possibly dishonest , possibly vicious ’ environment from which the cadets were to be recruited . |
| 5 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 6 | After making findings of fact which are broadly summarised in the second paragraph of this judgment the board determined , inter alia : ( 1 ) that the fees derived from the sub-licencing were sourced in the countries in which the sub-licensees were by their contracts entitled to exercise the particular rights and ( 2 ) that the 1981 agreement vested in the taxpayer rights over intangible property , which rights could only be exercised outside Hong Kong . |
| 7 | The ‘ family ’ was not merely the basic social unit of bourgeois society but its basic unit of property and business enterprise , linked with other such units through a system of exchanges of women-plus-property ( the ‘ marriage portion ’ ) in which the women were by strict convention deriving from pre-bourgeois tradition virgines intactae . |
| 8 | A simple example would be a delivery date , under a subcontract for the supply of components , which was too late to enable the buyer to fulfil his delivery obligations under a prime contract for the supply of a machine in which the components were to be incorporated . |
| 9 | In Musselburgh , there was a beach game ( called fitba ) in which the goals were of little sticks and the ball a dried bladder of seaweed flicked with the middle finger to score . |
| 10 | It was seen that the traditional system , in which the patients were at the bottom of a communication and status hierarchy and were denied autonomy or participation in the running of the institution , exacerbated the problems many patients had , or produced the characteristic ‘ institutionalization ’ which was to be deplored . |
| 11 | Two of these institutions were universities , in which the interviews were with members of the English and physics departments . |
| 12 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 13 | Two commissions were set up to regulate the Danube , on which no warships were to be allowed below the Iron Gates . |
| 14 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 15 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 16 | As those were the best lines , you can imagine what the rest were like . |
| 17 | Well I think we will be er in a sense looking erm you know at the options that are available and all the options that are available after two thousand six , er we have n't looked at those in gr in any great detail , what the options were at that time . |
| 18 | The crude facts about the tyrannies are easily stated ; it is harder to get at the truth about what the tyrannies were like . |
| 19 | He would n't tell me a whole lot about what the countries were like , because he did n't know himself . |
| 20 | But what we had in mind in looking at this through the the local plan was that er we 'd be looking at specific end users to see what the benefits were of those those end users and to assess those benefits against any environmental harm that there would be and strategy as a whole . |
| 21 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 22 | I 've often wondered what the odds were against breaking that same pane twice in succession . |
| 23 | Feeling that further conversation was needed , I asked what the roses were like at Sutton that summer . |
| 24 | No matter what the deficiencies were in its security arrangements at Frankfurt , the airline and its insurers were at least entitled to prepare their best defence against a charge of wilful misconduct . |
| 25 | I beat a heavy retreat : what I did not want to do was find out what the locals were like . |
| 26 | They both looked thoughtful , heads side by side at the open oven door , while I wondered what the chances were of both heads fitting — and jamming — inside and the door safety-catch somehow short-circuiting . |
| 27 | I wondered what the chances were of bedding the girl . |
| 28 | Was this what the pebbles were for ? |
| 29 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 30 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |