Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boxes were stacked on desks and tables and covered the floors as fast as the shelves were emptied . |
| 2 | The shelves on either side of the window behind the desk were stacked with files , directories and timetables . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’ |
| 4 | With Derby County ahead against Swindon Town , the odds were stacked against Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | Even if she had n't been linked to the blackamoor , the cards were stacked against flight . |
| 6 | They hung on walls , they leaned against each other in piles by the walls , they were stacked in corners . |
| 7 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 8 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 9 | Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic . |
| 10 | One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood . |
| 11 | You were ripped off man . |
| 12 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 13 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 14 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 15 | The fugitives were traced to Sydney . ’ |
| 16 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 17 | One half was stained with β -gal to verify phenotype , and in the other half efferent cranial nerves emerging from the hindbrain were traced in paraformaldehyde fixed embryos 10–10.5d.p.c. by injecting small volumes DiIC 18 ( 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3' — tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate , molecular probes , 5mgml -1 in dimethylformamide ) at their exit points . |
| 18 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 19 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 20 | The thick fingers were spattered with blobs of bright paint . |
| 21 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 22 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 23 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 24 | The larger troops , plausibly , were developed as protection from diurnal predators . |
| 25 | Now er the things that of course was er was only different skill using colours and patterns but y y you understand that the Fair Isles were developed on pins , and you notice the patterns were always small and I think you know the practical reasons for that . |
| 26 | In addition , some 90 ‘ equity share ’ dwellings were developed on sites owned originally by the local authority by the Enterprise 5 and Cheviot Housing Associations . |
| 27 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 28 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 29 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 30 | The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing . |