Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His easel collapsed , his drawings were ripped from the wall . |
| 32 | The language used by the president was also a shock to many , and the transcripts of the tapes were punctuated with the phrase " expletive deleted " . |
| 33 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 34 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 35 | Some of the images were traced to an account by an author on Kashmir , and some to another one of Florida by a different author . |
| 36 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 37 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 38 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 39 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 40 | In days of yore , such places were spattered with the blood of sacrificial victims to ensure good fortune in battle , and dunters are thought to be the spirits of these unhappy people . |
| 41 | I shall then discuss two theories of literary language and of the literary text as a whole , which were developed under the joint influence of Saussure and the Russian Formalists . |
| 42 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 43 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
| 44 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
| 45 | Quite complicated tooth-and-socket hinges were developed between the valves . |
| 46 | The objectives would be achieved more readily ‘ if courses were developed on a unit basis ’ . |
| 47 | Party leaders should consider taking the major drug companies into public ownership so that their products were developed on the basis of need rather than profit . |
| 48 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 49 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 50 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 51 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 52 | First of all , new languages were developed for the scientist and engineer who did not want to learn basic code . |
| 53 | The R-series and Sparc versions of Unix System V.4.2 announced last week ( CI No 2,131 ) were developed with the respective help of NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd : the R-series version was implemented on the NEC EWS 4800/210 workstation to create the reference version , while the Sparc version was developed in conjunction with Fujitsu , using the DS/90 7000 series and the ICL Plc DRS 6000 as reference systems ; shipments of the two new versions are due to begin from March 31 . |
| 54 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 55 | The applied maps were computer generated and then colour printed , using information from a number of databases processed through a Geographic Information System New computer methods were developed during the project to enable these various databases , which included digitised geological linework and mine plans , raster-scanned topography and computer-coded borehole and geotechnical data , to be used in this way . |
| 56 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 57 | In the interval , policies were developed at a slower pace than the rate the problems multiplied with which they were intended to deal . |
| 58 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 59 | The pictures were developed from a film found in a camera belonging to Elizabeth Over , 30 , murdered on a lonely beach at Sodwana Bay , in Zululand . |
| 60 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |