Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riots in the United States were once described as continuing through a long hot summer . |
| 2 | Even in her brief sojourn with EMI , two duets with Isobel Baillie were never issued and the matrices were destroyed . |
| 3 | The new body included 80 representatives of Workers and peasants , the numbers of Masjumi were almost doubled and there were greatly increased numbers from Sumatra . |
| 4 | In the north , the Ping Tiao were effectively destroyed and Mach 's Yu were primed to step into the resultant power vacuum . |
| 5 | This would demonstrate that the scars of Suez were fully healed and that the British decision to act against Nasser had been right all along . |
| 6 | Perhaps the reason Zeppelin were so despised after the punk revolution was the fact that they were the ultimate muso band . |
| 7 | Perhaps the reason Zeppelin were so despised after the punk revolution was the fact that they were the ultimate muso band . |
| 8 | Fourteen-year-old Craig Ralphs and eighteen year old Glenn Cameron were subsequently arrested and charged with reckless driving and taking cars without consent . |
| 9 | Fourteen-year-old Craig Ralphs and eighteen year old Glenn Cameron were subsequently arrested and charged with reckless driving and taking cars without consent . |
| 10 | Two houses in Berelands Road were badly damaged and two in Hillside Avenue were demolished . |
| 11 | Anna Pavord 's proposal ( 27 September ) that the interior should be rebuilt as ‘ a series of simple , clean well-designed rooms ’ for the display of the contents saved from the fire ignores the fact that the furniture and paintings at Uppark were either designed or collected by the Fetherstonhaugh family over numerous generations especially for the rooms in which they lived . |
| 12 | St. Brice and St. Martin were closely associated and St. Brice succeeded St. Martin as bishop of Tours in 444 . |
| 13 | A Mr. and Mrs. Martin were subsequently appointed as master and matron , and their daughter Selina was given the post of schoolmistress . |
| 14 | The high cost of transport meant that areas with access to the sea or to navigable rivers such as the Danube were better placed than inland areas . |
| 15 | The curators and restorers in Weimar were immediately informed and drove over to inspect the damage and collect the paintings , which are now undergoing restoration at Weimar Castle . |
| 16 | Only Gabriel and Dickinson were fully dressed and erect . |
| 17 | The 7.05 from Hartlepool to Darlington and the 7.57 from Darlington to Hartlepool were both cancelled and passengers transferred to buses . |
| 18 | Buildings occupied by the PSP and by the Shiite militia Amal were also repossessed and on July 27 Hezbollah began evacuating its largest base in Lebanon — the Sheikh Abdullah Barracks in Bekaa , 70 km east of Beirut . |
| 19 | Egypt 's repayments on its US$167,000,000 debt to China were reportedly rescheduled and further agreements allowed for increased volumes in trade , additional bilateral facilities for exporters and direct flights between Beijing and Cairo . |
| 20 | And in the reviews of the Section d'Or and the progressive Salons of 1912 , there are indications that the works of Kupka , Picabia and Marcel Duchamp were generally recognized as having gone in some way beyond those of the original Cubists in daring and novelty . |
| 21 | The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective . |
| 22 | The offices of the CDHES were twice raided and bombed and as a consequence , in 1981 , Marianella decided to move the main offices of the CDHES to Mexico City . |
| 23 | Plans for the reoccupation of Malaya were well advanced and some ships had already put to sea . |
| 24 | Three matches in six days since winning the ZDS Cup have proved too much and former Forest favourite Trevor Francis ' lively Wednesday were rarely troubled while two more Forest old boys , Wilson and Sheridan , ran the midfield . |
| 25 | Several Bolshevik commissars favoured such a compromise , but Lenin and Trotsky were adamantly opposed and negotiations broke down . |
| 26 | Communications between eastern and western areas of Liberia were severely hampered when a road running through Nimba county which linked Monrovia ( the capital ) with the south-eastern parts of the country fell into rebel control . |
| 27 | ( As stated earlier in this chapter , Rover 's links with Honda were further cemented when Honda acquired a 20 per cent stake in Rover . ) |
| 28 | After England became reconciled to Rome , Latimer and Ridley were formally tried and convicted of heresy . |
| 29 | The Provisions of Oxford were thus quashed and declared null and void , while the King was to retain control over his choice of those counsellors , whether native or alien , whom he thought faithful and useful to him . |
| 30 | The political changes of 1989 in Eastern Europe were favourably received and reported in the Mongolian press . |