Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 2 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 3 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 4 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 5 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 6 | A short , stocky middle-aged man with thinning brown hair , a ruddy face and a twinkle in his eyes was standing at the doorway eyeing him . |
| 7 | One of the frogs was eaten by a lizard . |
| 8 | Again the howl , as if one of Satan 's demons was rising from the pit of Hell . |
| 9 | A JUDGE 'S refusal to let undercover police officers give evidence behind a screen at the trial of 19 Manchester United fans was upheld in the High Court yesterday . |
| 10 | A proposal by Germany to create CSCE peace-keeping units was opposed by the United States , the United Kingdom and France . |
| 11 | One study of Parkinson 's disease , an incurable nervous condition , showed that the use of garden pesticides was associated with a higher incidence of the disease . |
| 12 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 13 | They were heavily made up , with painted cheeks and scarlet lipstick ; each of their noses was pierced with a single diamond stud . |
| 14 | The extensive studies on removal and transplantation of the ovaries by Knauer in Vienna ( see Chapter 5 ) appeared in 1900 and the more general concept of hormones or blood-borne chemical messengers was elaborated for the first time by Starling in his Croonian lectures a decade after Beatson 's observations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 16 | It is possible that the earlier opposition of Chramn to his father , Chlothar , and to his brothers was linked to the fact that he alone was the son of Chunsina . |
| 17 | A law giving the government the power to lift bans on direct links with China and to exchange representative offices was adopted by the Legislative Yuan , or parliament , on July 16 after almost two years of debate . |
| 18 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 19 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 20 | The story of his athletic triumphs was retold in the film Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Where among the fathers there had been one representative each of gamekeeper , watchman , pilot , none of these trades was represented among the husbands : instead there were one each of policeman , teacher , minister of religion , prison warder and two farmers : occupations entirely absent from the list of fathers . |
| 22 | There the teaching of various trades was added to the curriculum and the number of pupils housed and taught in the school soon rose to some two hundred . |
| 23 | A hard-pressed villager could hope that numerous sons would increase the household 's income , especially since the allocation of land in most communes was related to the size of the household . |
| 24 | Sir , — My regiment The Queens Royal Irish Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of The 4th Queens Own Hussars and The 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , in 1958 . |
| 25 | However , at last year 's SNP conference , a call to drop the commitment to renationalise the public utilities was made by the convener of publicity , John Swinney , and was supported by a former party leader , Gordon Wilson . |
| 26 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 27 | One of Etty 's nudes was hanging like a clue , |
| 28 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 29 | The new " meaning " , therefore , that was preached by the missionaries was embodied in a modern subject : English Language , Literature , and History . |
| 30 | The conflict between male and female anxieties was compounded by the conflict between the disparate values of home and school — two closed systems at variance with each other . |