Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many women from AMPES decided to go to the combat zones , or were forced to leave the country . |
| 2 | Key variables that were considered to affect the rate of desertification were soil status , vulnerability of land to desertification , and human and animal population pressures . |
| 3 | ASHLEY BICKERTON 'S painted construction Le Art 1987 is a brash , beautifully executed compilation of the logos of the art materials that were used to make the work . |
| 4 | Other contributory causes that were suggested included the inadequacy of pre-school provision and its particular unsuitability for West Indian families ; prejudice on the part of some teachers against West Indian children 's use of English ; inappropriate curricula and teaching materials ; and the discouraging effect of the relatively poor employment prospects of West Indian school leavers resulting from discrimination in the labour market . |
| 5 | This proved impractical as the PAN contained far more data than were required to update the PMIS . |
| 6 | Such disruption led , by December , to the men of the Independent Companies spending as much if not more time securing their lines of supply , administering the areas of their platoon bases , and fighting hostile natives than were spent watching the Japanese . |
| 7 | Last July Aileen Penn and her family set off on a sponsored marathon round of golf that was destined to criss-cross the country and take them on a 1,000 mile bicycle ride . |
| 8 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 9 | The milk sprayed into the bucket in a few short spurts and Piladu pushed the animal forward , let two heavily pregnant ewes push past him and reached out to grasp the wool of a lamb that was trying to jump the rail where the Captain and the Brigadier were leaning . |
| 10 | Not only was this the only way , according to d'Argenlieu , to stop a Vietminh that was determined to oust the French but , in effect , it would be the only way to hold the French Union together . |
| 11 | This is an excellent book about the defeat of the Iraqi army that was sent to capture the RAF base at Habbaniya in 1941 . |
| 12 | That explanation depends on the presence of molecular oxygen in the gas cloud that was condensing to form the Sun , something the San Diego chemists think was likely , although they can not be certain . |
| 13 | The first solution for colliding plane gravitational waves that was obtained using the inverse scattering method was that of Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1987 b ) , who obtained the solution described in Section 10.4 using the method in the form developed by Carr and Verdaguer ( 1983 ) . |
| 14 | One fact that was used to support the idea of a recent origin was the recognition that the human race is obviously evolving in culture and technology . |
| 15 | To avoid any presumptions about the structure of the DNA , we replaced the bent DNA in the actual complex with the phosphate backbone for B-form DNA that was used to model the CAP/DNA complex . |
| 16 | The body of Alan Chalky White was found in lake fifty six at the Cotswold Water Park in 1989 … the same lake , it 's claimed that was used to hide the drugs.Tim Hurst reports from Winchester Crown Court . |
| 17 | If there is no uncertainty , the fair price of a financial futures contract can be determined very simply using the cost-of-carry ( or the cash-and-carry ) model ( the same model that was used to find the CTD bond ) . |
| 18 | The team that was meant to rebuild the economy has downed tools and walked off the site . |
| 19 | The Moonies , for example , thought that the Unification Church was a godly institution that was going to save the world from its problems by restoring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth . |
| 20 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 21 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 22 | Purpose hard in her , she staggered back to the flat sheet of the blueness that was spread to catch the warmth of the sun and in her frozen hand was a knife sharpened by erosion from a rock . |
| 23 | In this particular example , only a very small amount of the green was needed to change the yellow in comparison with the large amount of yellow that was required to influence the green . |
| 24 | The growth of the bill mountain in the first half of the 1980s was due largely to the policy of overfunding the PSBR — that is , selling more public sector debt to the non-bank private sector than was needed to match the size of the PSBR . |
| 25 | As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed . |
| 26 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 27 | The comparability of the CVs was confirmed by two consultants who were unaware of the purpose of the research and were asked to rate the CVs after the names had been removed . |
| 28 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 29 | However , after being refused passage by two ferry companies , they were forced to admit their load was not radioactive and were made to remove the stickers and signs before they could sail . |
| 30 | They listened to an impassioned sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Tyre and were moved to take the cross themselves . |