Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 2 | ‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’ |
| 3 | In the time of Augustus also were erected the Temples of Concord , of Castor and Pollux , and the Basilica Julia . |
| 4 | When the skulls in the crypt of St Bride 's Church were disinterred the wisps of hair remaining on them were found to have turned bright orange . |
| 5 | In September 1939 the Congress politicians who were enjoying the fruits of office abruptly discovered the limits of their power . |
| 6 | Harlequin ducks were enjoying the rapids and sun , toing and froing , preening and looking most elegant , and I was enjoying myself , crawling commando-style at the water 's edge , despite the odd passer-by 's curious gaze . |
| 7 | In spite of inflation , Americans were enjoying the beginnings of a very real and lasting period of prosperity . |
| 8 | And tonight we were defying the midges on a remaining fragment of the once extensive heathland . |
| 9 | Miss Poraway told the men who were unloading the trestle-tables that she would require a good one , because she ran the book-stall and always had . |
| 10 | Conversely , if United States shippers were to sue the carriers in Great Britain , where most of the sources of information on the defendants ' diligence and assets were located , they would be bound by exemption clauses that the United States courts had voided . |
| 11 | Yet from Justin onwards , they were seeing the destinies of the empire mysteriously bound up with God 's purposes being worked out through his church . |
| 12 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 13 | And so and we were bringing in deals and they were phoning the clients back and saying , Look yeah great alarm systems blah blah we have an alternative one cheaper . |
| 14 | One of the duties occasionally assumed by the guilds was the maintenance of a charnel , a subterranean chamber into which were placed the bones of the dead disturbed when interments took place in the churchyard . |
| 15 | When the first orders were placed the numbers of two-car units in the fleet were set by means of a number of calculations . |
| 16 | Ulrich proposed that acid industrial emissions , principally the old enemy sulphur , were poisoning the forests through the release of aluminium in the soil . |
| 17 | A dozen suited men were fastening the edges of the insulator to the brace of the frame . |
| 18 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 19 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
| 20 | The teenagers , aged 15 and 16 , were given a police caution for distributing the illegal unclassified tapes . |
| 21 | We were given the details of our appointments individually . |
| 22 | On the second day of the hearing when the reasons were given the parties ' legal representatives were there with the exception of the representative of the guardian ad litem . |
| 23 | Both Willibrord , English apostle to the Frisians , and Wynfrith , were consecrated bishop by the pope in Rome and were given the names of Roman martyrs whose feasts fell around the time of their consecration : Willibrord Clement and Wynfrith Boniface . |
| 24 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 25 | As an example , Birtwell cites the New Zealand game in Lille , when the Canadian backs were given the balls in situations when the pack had stopped going forward . |
| 26 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 27 | During the course they were given the facilities of the officers mess where they were fed and housed . |
| 28 | Their route also included the boundary of Chappel village green , where children in the party were given the bumps — another echo of the ceremony 's original purpose . |
| 29 | As we were pitching the tents , a herd of buffalo wandered by , this time plainly visible , less than 500 yards away . |
| 30 | As right-wing violence against foreigners continued on an almost daily basis , mainly in the east but with some incidents in the west , the Brandenburg Interior Minister Alwin Ziel called on Sept. 8 for the banning of neo-Nazi organizations which he believed were masterminding the attacks , particularly the Cottbus-based German Alternative ( DA ) . |