Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 2 | The study was performed in accordance with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki ethical guidelines and was approved by the Research and Ethical Committees of the Hospital . |
| 3 | Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes , MP for Wimbledon , who served as a medical officer in the Life Guards and was recalled in the Gulf war , protested at a reduction in the number of Foot Guard battalions . |
| 4 | Heading for the same ship again , he was once more ignored by the guards and was fed by the crew before being told to return the next day . |
| 5 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 6 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | He was greeted by 5,000 UNITA supporters and was met at the airport by government representatives . |
| 8 | Based on a London Mild recipe from 175O , the latter was originally drunk by London fish and market porters and was named after the brewer 's dog ! |
| 9 | Traditionally Catholic provision for this age group was found in the Sixth Forms of our Grammar and Comprehensive schools and was confined in the main to A level provision . |
| 10 | The maquila ( in-bond ) industry was introduced along Mexico 's northern border in the mid-1960s and was extended to the rest of the country in 1972 . |
| 11 | Mrs Stead-Carter had sold her cakes and was hurrying between the kitchen and the tea-tables . |
| 12 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 13 | The conference was attended by scientists from both rainforest and industrialized countries and was organized by the UN 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . |
| 14 | He had got restlessly to his feet and was leaning over the green wooden railing that came to waist height at the edge of the veranda , but after a suppressed exclamation he wheeled to face his sister again . |
| 15 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 16 | He was still pretty , still was obliged to wear his hair in long curls and was attired in the same silks and satins but underneath all this there was a tougher character emerging . |
| 17 | No doubt he had observed her talking to the Shergolds and was itching for the chance to find out what she knew . |
| 18 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 19 | Modigliani disliked social gatherings but was persuaded by the promise of music to visit the couple . |
| 20 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 21 | However , the Act was a disastrous failure for political reasons and was repealed by the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 . |
| 22 | ‘ In the Greshorns he wandered alone through the passes , climbed the peaks and was exhausted by the journey . |
| 23 | Evolutionary rationalism was built into its foundations and was reflected in the character of its early work . |
| 24 | Though the Privy Council finally ruled in her favour in 1637 , the patent fell foul of rising hostility to all such courtly monopolies and was blocked by the City of London . |
| 25 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 26 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 28 | Eight miles away you can visit the magnificent Arundel Castle , which originated in Norman times and was rebuilt by the Duke of Norfolk in the 1870s . |
| 29 | Little is known about his activities in Parliament , but in 1628 he opposed the billeting of troops and was summoned before the Privy Council ; four years later he was in conflict with the authorities again over musters . |
| 30 | Herod , who had no drop of Israelitish blood in his veins and was stung by the consciousness of his base origins , burnt the registers of their families … |