Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic . |
| 2 | A WEST Belfast husband and wife were remanded in court today on a terror charge . |
| 3 | A MAN and a woman were remanded in custody yesterday in connection with a shotgun incident in Braintree . |
| 4 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 5 | Pat McCourt of Craigavon and her three sisters were born in Portsmouth , but were placed in care soon after the death of their mother . |
| 6 | The houses were shaded clear against the ground : on the hills he could see the white lines of the new walls they were building like netting all over the high ground ; from the direction of the lake he heard an occasional voice , as sharp as the crack of a pistol . |
| 7 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 8 | These were subject to acceptance by the people of those countries , who were consulted by referenda early in 1979 . |
| 9 | BOYS and girls of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook were joined by villagers yesterday at an ecumenical service in the school chapel to celebrate the jubilee of the school 's move to Suffolk from Greenwich . |
| 10 | Table 1 ) were exposed to weathering early in 1979 . |
| 11 | The PGL were expected to coast home at Pickie against the Bowling League of Ireland . |
| 12 | Firstly , although some of the schemes were designed for staff right across further education , they were attracting only a handful of teachers of vocational subjects , while the remaining schemes did not take their needs into account at all . |
| 13 | Long narrow destination boards with route numbers in small figures at the ends , were slotted into brackets just below the saloon windows , replacing those on the upper deck screens . |
| 14 | Antibody incubations were done in TTBS overnight at 4°C and control strips were similarly incubated in TTBS containing an equivalent amount of protein from normal rabbit serum . |
| 15 | German defences were sited in depth all along the ridge , giving them an uninterrupted view of British movements . |
| 16 | The summit reached almost 4000 feet , above a mass of crags which were blotched with snow even in the height of summer . |
| 17 | As in previous exhibitions , artists like Alcide Le Beau , Segonzac and Luc Albert Moreau , whose paintings were related to Cubism only in a most general way , were invited to show , and the title may have been chosen partly to allow for this . |
| 18 | The majority of these , three thousand one hundred and twenty three , were made by applicants already in the U K who presented themselves at United Kingdom Immigration Nationality offices to request asylum . |
| 19 | Signal bells were operated by cords just above the saloon windows . |
| 20 | The headstones here were used as models all over central Bohemia . |
| 21 | Moulds were used as antiseptics long before the discovery of antibiotics , but modern pharmacology has vastly extended their utility by analysing their active products , producing these in large amounts and making variations on their structures . |
| 22 | Later , plain biscuits were used in Edenderry instead of bread . |
| 23 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and are said to have been encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 24 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and reportedly encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 25 | Using a southern route , supplies landed at the government-held Red Sea port of Asab were transported by lorry inland to Dese and thence northwards into Tigre , to both government-controlled and rebel-held areas . |
| 26 | Jane and Laura went on numerous shopping trips for antiques to Paris and , slowly , all the rooms in the château were redecorated in fabrics more in keeping with the building 's style and history . |
| 27 | Inquests were opened in Britain yesterday into the deaths of the two friends , after their remains were flown home . |
| 28 | Patients were classified into quartiles independently in respect of their energy intake and their physical activity and were then designated as having a low energy intake , a normal energy intake , or a high energy intake with respect to their physical activity . |
| 29 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 30 | To qualify for money , the projects had to demonstrate that they were going to work effectively in a joint way . |