Example sentences of "[coord] were [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 2 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 3 | Some officers broke ranks and were met with a volley of stones . |
| 4 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 5 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 6 | Usually , they had a single mast stepped amidships and were rigged with a single square sail . |
| 7 | Those writers who travelled from Los Angeles had a twenty-four-hour journey and were called to a Peter Sellers press conference less than three hours after they arrived in Britain . |
| 8 | Leadership calls for party unity in difficult political circumstances prevailed , however , and were reinforced by a common underlying belief in the congress that the Sandinistas continued to exercise political influence in a tacit pact with the government . |
| 9 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 10 | In the Bekaa , he records , ‘ birds sang among the reeds and were echoed by a distant chorus from farm workers marching out to potato fields with long hoes over their shoulders . |
| 11 | The aeromagnetic data are on flight lines typically spaced at 2 km and were collected at a height of 305 m . |
| 12 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 13 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 14 | Around 50 retired employees attended the party and were treated to a three course dinner served up by committee volunteers . |
| 15 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |
| 16 | It was not Sussex backwardness alone that brought trouble but the collapse of the artificial prosperity across England when the wars ended in 1815 and were followed by a series of disastrous harvests . |
| 17 | Some of the components of ‘ North Star ’ survived and were incorporated in a non-working replica built for the Stockton and Darlington centenary . |
| 18 | We shook hands and were joined by a sparkling red-head : ‘ Dr Sherry Brown , hello . |
| 19 | Men went down with two or three of the beasts ripping at them ; others fell overboard and were killed in a froth of churning water . |
| 20 | On making these decisions , her panic attacks stopped and were replaced by a mixture of emotions as she faced up to her fear of intimacy and commitment , and her excitement and uncertainty over becoming a mature student . |
| 21 | They were shown round Farnham Castle and the nearby villages , and were invited to a succession of matches in tennis , football and badminton and other sporting activities . |
| 22 | The Reverend Bert Jones , a minister in the United Reformed CHurch , and Miles Cooper were among a dozen hunt saboteurs who witnessed the scene and were invoved in a skirmish afterwards . |
| 23 | These illnesses — bronchitis and then emphysema being the most prominent — recurred throughout the Fifties and were provoked by a number of causes , not the least of which was the fact that Eliot was still a heavy smoker . |
| 24 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 25 | All had several days ' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing . |
| 26 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 27 | The requirements were approved annually by Parliament , and were determined by a scale rate of benefit , together with a whole series of regular weekly additions . |
| 28 | Relative affinities were determined in gel retardation assays and were normalized to a wild-type ( WT ) K d of 1 . |
| 29 | The people were commanded to assemble and were faced with a simple choice : ‘ Elijah stepped forward and said to the people , ‘ How long will you sit on the fence ? |
| 30 | I think erm if you shopping performance the week before and if the programme have been sponsored by Kellogg 's Cornflakes then it 's possible that if you were in your local erm Sainsbury shop and were faced with a number of alternatives to buy , there is possibly a chance that you can buy Kellogg 's Cornflakes . |