Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) . |
| 2 | When the Falklands were invaded on 2 April last year , they were given the weekend to pack and a police escort to the Dover ferry . |
| 3 | Such new suburbs were most attractive to the lower middle class , although Port Sunlight and Bournville were built on similar principles for workers , as were the LCC 's first cottage estates . |
| 4 | LEAs were authorised by this Act to spend public money on meals for undernourished elementary school children . |
| 5 | Then , records of strandings in Britain and the United States were plotted against magnetic maps . |
| 6 | The emergence of brilliant teenagers like Nicky Barmby , Andy Turner , Stuart Nethercott and Andy Hill were introduced into first-team action and Venables predicted a bright future for the club . |
| 7 | Stars Jeff Goldblum , Laura Dern and Sam Neill were joined by ex-heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali , former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee , Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and several members of Congress . |
| 8 | In the south of England , Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey were affected to some extent — again much more in some parts than others — but the south-eastern corner of England owes little or nothing to the enclosure commissioners . |
| 9 | Willetts suggests that the cults of the goddesses Britomartis and Diktynna were connected , and that Britomartis and Diktynna were related to each other in much the same way as the later Persephone and Demeter . |
| 10 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 11 | The Commissar , 22 year old Peter Jacobs and 21 year old Nicklo Pedro were sentenced to 14 years . |
| 12 | The Securitate and the KGB were falling over each other at that point . |
| 13 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 14 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 15 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 16 | Thus from mid-1962 the Soviet Union and Cuba were committed to each other to an extent which made it extremely difficult for either party to renounce the relationship . |
| 17 | When the people in Northern Ireland were listening to these matters on the radio , they were wondering why a statement was to be made . |
| 18 | The lowlands of Northern Ireland were covered by slow-moving ice sheets which had spread out across them from faster-moving glaciers in the mountains . |
| 19 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 20 | Three sides of the Piazza were bordered by arched colonnades , tiers upon tiers of them , like a massive wedding cake . |
| 21 | Scotland were blessed with greater pace behind the scrum than , for example , the Canadians , but there was a lack of direct , straight running among the backs , the sort of qualities embodied by Kenny Logan , Kenny Milligan and Ian Jardine ( the last two-named winning defensive kudos , too , during the autumn events ) who are not among the present selection , but could figure next month . |
| 22 | So long as France and Scotland were run by three members of the mighty Guise family , the cardinal and the duke in France and their sister Mary in Scotland , then the only way for the Lords of the Congregation to achieve their religious ends , and prevent Scotland from sinking into provincial status , was to resist the regent . |
| 23 | For over 400 years , until the middle of the 17th century , noblemen and other landowners throughout Scotland were required by royal decree to parade their armed retainers periodically for a show of weapons and practise of military skills . |
| 24 | Cook 's pioneering excursionists to Scotland were greeted with crowd-lined streets , brass bands and cannon fire because the tourist was still unusual enough to be an entertaining curiosity . |
| 25 | In half an hour , in eight overs , Hampshire were dismissed for 15 runs , their last scoring item being four byes . |
| 26 | Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition . |
| 27 | Because SOEs were created for multiple reasons , most faced conflicting pressures from various constituencies and could not reconcile multiple , and conflicting , objectives . |
| 28 | They lost despite the fact that Warrington were reduced to 12 men five minutes into the second half . |
| 29 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 30 | As in Calcutta — where England were beaten by eight wickets — and Madras , where they lost by an innings and 22 runs , the English batsmen had no answers to the spin bowling . |