Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 2 | Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end . |
| 3 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
| 4 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 5 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 6 | In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties . |
| 7 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 8 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 9 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 10 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 11 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 12 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 13 | I shall then discuss two theories of literary language and of the literary text as a whole , which were developed under the joint influence of Saussure and the Russian Formalists . |
| 14 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 15 | The R-series and Sparc versions of Unix System V.4.2 announced last week ( CI No 2,131 ) were developed with the respective help of NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd : the R-series version was implemented on the NEC EWS 4800/210 workstation to create the reference version , while the Sparc version was developed in conjunction with Fujitsu , using the DS/90 7000 series and the ICL Plc DRS 6000 as reference systems ; shipments of the two new versions are due to begin from March 31 . |
| 16 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 17 | These weapons were developed from the long-barrelled hunting weapons used in Hochland , and their long barrels make them very accurate . |
| 18 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 19 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 20 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 21 | Training materials were developed by the Scottish Office in collaboration with colleges of education . |
| 22 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 23 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 24 | NO ex-South Metropolitan car was ever renumbered , although a number were repainted in the official London Transport livery . |
| 25 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 26 | In the towns many new churches were erected with the financial provision of the 1818 ‘ Million Act ’ and in the countryside squires and parishioners restored or substantially rebuilt thousands of medieval churches . |
| 27 | Barricades were erected at the precise boundary of the two religious communities in an area of no-man's-land between a Catholic cathedral and a Protestant church , both rumoured to be threatened by attack . |
| 28 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 29 | The fifteenth century saw the final phase of Gothic architecture in France , when many richly ornamented buildings were erected in the flamboyant style . |
| 30 | As population grew and harvests failed more often , attitudes towards the rate-receiving poor hardened , especially after the food crisis of 1795 – 6 when even firmly rising rents were outpaced by the soaring poor rate . |