Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cereals were stacked under the stairs , toilet paper above the door and ‘ thro' the back ’ was the repository for every shape and size of bottle . |
| 2 | The room had the look of a tattered nest — piles of newspapers were stacked against the walls , empty stone bottles stood about with dust on their shoulders like soldiers after a battle . |
| 3 | Empty frames and canvases were stacked against the walls … |
| 4 | Fortunately for Hippisley , the body was never found , although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk . |
| 5 | Quite complicated tooth-and-socket hinges were developed between the valves . |
| 6 | From the Romans the French learned great fruit-growing skills which were developed in the monasteries . |
| 7 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 8 | And mock crosses were erected outside the grounds with our names on . |
| 9 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 10 | Screens were erected on the walls . |
| 11 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 12 | Spotlights were erected around the shelves . |
| 13 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 14 | On 24 January , when Algiers learned of Massu 's fate , a general strike was called and barricades were erected in the streets . |
| 15 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 16 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 17 | Reporters were fascinated by the methods ICI uses to monitor the effects of chemicals in the air , on the ground and in rivers , lakes and seas . |
| 18 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 19 | With these values the oesophageal and gastric HC0 3 - concentrations ( mmol/litre ) were calculated from the equations : |
| 20 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
| 21 | In them relatively spacious plots of varying dimensions were arranged along the frontages and housed a range of individual buildings and other related features . |
| 22 | A few bookcases with glazed doors were arranged around the walls leaving a central space for a table and chairs . |
| 23 | Besides the inventory of the shop , several stringed instruments and scores of operas by Lully were listed among the contents of Martin 's bedroom . |
| 24 | Both the Dark Age Benedictine monastery and the church were sacked by the Saracens on 10 October 881 AD , as recorded in the twelfth-century Chronicon Vulturnense . |
| 25 | Water was comparatively plentiful , except in times of drought , but the pools and streams were infested with the parasites which caused bilharzia , a debilitating disease which infected nearly all the local people , who had no alternative water supply for washing . |
| 26 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 27 | Shields were propped against the boles of the pines ; broken spears rested by them and helmets , the dull iron helms of the lost legion , had been nailed to the bark . |
| 28 | Others were propped against the walls . |
| 29 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 30 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |