Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As rather over 5,000 gliders were built in this country it was not possible for ‘ experts ’ to inspect them all continually so Mark Pryor issued instructions that he should be informed if they stank . |
| 2 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 3 | In a simple case , we might have the following key set : These thirty-four records need only 34 storage positions , but if they were stored in self-indexing form they would take up 359 storage positions , and there would be five gaps of 91 , 1 , 1 , 94 and 138 positions respectively . |
| 4 | If we were to fail in one area it would begin to be assumed elsewhere that perhaps the anti-British propaganda of our enemies had some basis to it , and that the Government were no longer willing or able to help their friends . |
| 5 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 6 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 7 | Auguste was pontificating in that voice he used solely for discussing cuisine , a mixture of reverence , excitement , practicality and anticipation . |
| 8 | If we knew why she was killed in that way we would be closer to the truth . ’ |