Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior officials of the United States administration were quoted on June 20 as saying that the USA expected to lift sanctions against South Africa by mid-July , a lead most other countries and organizations were generally expected quickly to follow . |
| 2 | As shown in Fig 7 , channel kinetics underconditions that produced inward current flow ( NaCl solution in the bath and high K + solution in the pipette ) differed from those seen during outward current flow ( see Fig 1 ) , and it is possible that channels were not activated sufficiently to produce sustained bursts of openings when NaCl solution was present in the bath . |
| 3 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 4 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 5 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 6 | This was certainly not the case in respect of the Geneva Conventions Act where the offences were newly created solely to give effect to the Convention , and were described as being hardly applicable to the case at all . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 8 | The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 . |
| 9 | After 9 days , individual reaggregate cultures were gently teased apart to liberate any lymphoid cells . |
| 10 | On March 19 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) appealed for action to " avert a major nutritional crisis " , warning of possible starvation in Iraq if measures were not taken quickly to distribute foodstuffs . |
| 11 | Both sides were later reported either to have used them or to be planning to do so . |
| 12 | Among the many cathedrals with Norman remains , it is most usual for the nave to be unaltered — the eastern arm and transepts were generally enlarged later to provide more accommodation . |
| 13 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 14 | Warner and Palairet were too taken aback to reply . |
| 15 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 16 | That doctors ' sex , age , years as a principal , training , or teaching and training activity were not shown significantly to influence their patients ' diabetic control . |
| 17 | During the 19C this and the surrounding area fell into decay and the cloisters were actually divided horizontally to provide two sets of slums . |