Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 2 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 3 | Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample . |
| 4 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 5 | The apostles and the communities of the faithful were driven by the Spirit , faith and the knowledge of the Risen Lord . |
| 6 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 7 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 8 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 9 | All the spectacular demonstrations of the unemployed were organized by the NUWM , including the Hunger Marches of 1932 , 1934 , and 1936 . |
| 10 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 11 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 12 | He thought the British were angered by the extent to which the Shah had criticized British sloth in recent years . |
| 13 | The British were squeezed by the tax-man until the pips squeaked — Aneurin Bevan 's phrase . |
| 14 | The Punjab had stood firm in 1857 ; the emirs of Northern Nigeria , it was noted with pride , stood firm in 1914 , when the British were forced by the outbreak of war with Germany to denude the area of troops . |
| 15 | But almost immediately , Amalgamated was sold to the Mirror Group , which now had holdings in two companies — to which the ITA objected . |
| 16 | That he knew his position to be unassailable was reflected in the fact that he immediately began to refer to himself not as Head of Government , but as Head of State . |
| 17 | Deaconess Tilley 's notions of the food proper for entertaining was formed from the needs of large families on small incomes crossed with Church ‘ does ’ of various kinds . |
| 18 | By the time Lucky Jim appeared , however , Amis was a lecturer in English at Swansea , though the novel is more likely to be based on recollections of a visit to his friend Larkin at Leicester , to whom it is dedicated ; and Bradbury 's Eating People is Wrong was written by a graduate student at Manchester University . |
| 19 | A VIDEO of a Spitfire plunging to the ground in flames when a stunt went wrong was shown to an inquest jury yesterday . |
| 20 | A Canavan free was floated into the square , where corner forward Stephen Ramsey rose to fist the ball to the net , leaving the scores at the break St Marys 1–6 UCG 0–3 . |
| 21 | The UK-flag bulk carrier Charming was hit by a missile while carrying a cargo of alumina in an Iranian-organized convoy going up to Bandar Khomeini . |
| 22 | During the first and third hours , saline was infused into the aorta ; during the second hour , 5HT was infused . |
| 23 | After a 10 minute rest period 0.9% saline was infused in the stomach at a rate of 4 ml/minute for 15 minutes with a syringe pump ( model 355 , Sage Instruments ) . |
| 24 | Panel B shows the results of a similar test given after a conditioning trial on which consumption of saline was followed by an injection of LiCl . |
| 25 | One ml of 9 9 m Tc DTPA radio labelled saline was introduced into the ileum by slow infusion over five minutes ; 0.3 ml saline was gently flushed through the cannula to ensure delivery of the entire volume of radiolabel into the ileum . |
| 26 | With the animals under light anesthaesia , 1 ml of 9 9 m Tc DTPA radiolabelled saline was introduced into the colon by slow infusion over five minutes ; 0.3 ml of saline was gently flushed through the cannula . |
| 27 | A tracheostomy was performed and a catheter contained heparinised ( 10 U/ml ) saline was inserted into the right carotid artery for continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure . |
| 28 | The twenty three year old was dragged from a busy street into an alleyway where the assault took place . |
| 29 | A social was held on the Saturday night followed by an ‘ excellent cold meal served in a marquee on the lawn in front of the clubhouse , and then by country dancing to the ‘ Hambleden Hustlers ’ who induced many of the company to join them . |
| 30 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |