Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Longitudinal sonograms of the gall bladder were recorded on film .
2 Long axis and transverse images of the gall bladder were obtained and the volume calculated , using the ellipsoid method , from the following formula :
3 Before entry into the study , each patient had a cystoscopy and at that time the number and position of tumours within the bladder were noted , the largest tumour was measured in two diameters and was resected into muscle , one tumour was selected as a , a reference tumour and left in situ and all the rest of the tumours were resected .
4 Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point .
5 Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded .
6 The contents of the gall bladder were emptied and 2 ml normal saline injected .
7 Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met .
8 All these seemed to relate to Balbinder 's needs as his parents saw them and Mr and Mrs Singh were beginning to seem happier .
9 On 13 September , Rudolf Cordes , a West German hostage , and then , on 4 October , Mithileshwar Singh were released .
10 It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ .
11 This is all that 's left of the bedroom in which four month old twins Bethany and charlotte were sleeping .
12 Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area .
13 The dams were intended to control the flooding which affects the river in winter , but they were strongly opposed by local people and environmental groups .
14 Dams were built linked by causeways to a series of smaller outpost forts .
15 The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority .
16 The Paris-based Office Internationale d'Epizooties ( OIE ) , which represents 120 countries , has accepted the principle that live trading could be resumed provided it were restricted to animals born after the feed ban — and that cattle born from BSE infected dams were excluded .
17 In Chapter 2 , 11 aspects of contemporary society which can cause trouble for religion were outlined .
18 Those Communist regimes which tried to ban religion were known for their cruelty .
19 In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy .
20 Rich deme evidence comes from Eleusis , one of the proudest and most important of the deme sites , partly because of its sanctuary to Demeter and Kore where the cults of the great Eleusinian mystery religion were performed , partly because of a too often forgotten feature of the place : its defences .
21 Even if the most eminent natural philosophers of the seventeenth century were laymen , it would still not follow that all connections between science and religion were severed .
22 Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question .
23 Marriage and religion were discussed and deplored .
24 He was not the conventional stuff of which familiars were made , of course .
25 There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing .
26 The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age .
27 Then ‘ started getting back into it ’ , McAllister and Speed were mentioned .
28 No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd .
29 The royal martyr 's sufferings were compared with those of Christ , ‘ Blessed Lord ’ , ran the central prayer at Matins ,
30 But Jesus ' sufferings were experienced on behalf of humankind , not because Jesus was unrealistic about himself .
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