Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 2 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 3 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 4 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 5 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 6 | Tonight , police said one of the drivers killed was from Northampton . |
| 7 | Although units shipped were at a record high , last year 's drastic price-cutting was much in evidence . |
| 8 | The contractions recorded were of varying amplitudes , and Cook et al 's tracings show good reproduction by the open tipped tube recordings of both the shape and amplitudeof contractions measured from the serosal strain gauges throughout a wide range of amplitudes . |
| 9 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 10 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 11 | The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members . |
| 12 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 13 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |
| 14 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 15 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 16 | But unlike the Towyn flood , areas hit were in large pockets spread around Aberconwy . |
| 17 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 18 | He had previously appointed me as an examining chaplain , as most of the duties involved were in connection with the ordination of European clergy . |
| 19 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 20 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | And thirdly the inducement in some countries for employers to federate was as a result of actual or threatened state intervention in the employment relationship , or sometimes because of the growing complexities of the legislative framework under which employers had to operate . |
| 22 | The problems associated with the development of the British atomic bomb for the V-bombers to carry were of a different order of magnitude . |
| 23 | Dior scored a recent success with the launch of Dune , which industry sources say was among the most popular lines at Christmas . |
| 24 | The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing . |
| 25 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 26 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 27 | However , ‘ many officers interviewed were in favour of administrative dismissal , not currently available under police regulations . ’ |
| 28 | By the late 1920s cattle stealing was of little concern to the authorities , but it underwent a revival with the onset of the depression , and received further impetus in 1936 when various regulations designed to control the movement and sale of cattle were lifted . |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 . |
| 30 | ‘ The rings stolen were of great sentimental value to the female owner , included in the haul were wedding and engagement rings . ’ |