Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 2 | He declared that prison officers , staff at the Director of Public Prosecution 's office , government scientists and junior members of the prosecution team were guilty of dereliction of duty for failing to disclose evidence . |
| 3 | All patients ( 90% ) who were free of obstruction from hyperplasia six months after implantation , remained asymptomatic subsequently . |
| 4 | The government 's retreat did not mean , for instance , that pupils were free from compulsion to study some technology and a modern foreign language after 14 but that short courses , as the Secretary of State announced , and combined courses as well as syllabuses for qualification other than the GCSE would become available . |
| 5 | All lysosomal enzyme assays were linear with respect to time and protein concentration . |
| 6 | Andrew Dorin , Scottish Natural Heritage 's Orkney officer , said yesterday the transducers were similar in size to oil drums but that they were hoping to find someone prepared to fly them up . |
| 7 | The longhouses were ablaze from gable to gable now , and Dunan 's Hearthwares milled about them . |
| 8 | The defendants were negligent in breach of duty of not carrying out of that part of that duty . |
| 9 | To take another example : Hong Kong 's banks were rotten for lack of regulation five years ago , when a series of collapses frightened the government into spending billions of dollars of public money on rescues . |
| 10 | There were three on Street between Bridge and Station . |
| 11 | Much of the Roman Wall was spirited away by local farmers ; the old stones were ideal for building into house and byre . |
| 12 | Within days of arriving at the club , were asked confused passers-by to name four players in the Premier League who were involved in gambling for cash . |
| 13 | The judge ruled that section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 under which admissions made in ‘ proceedings for the recovery or administration of any property ’ were inadmissible in evidence in proceedings for an offence under that Act , did not apply to bankruptcy proceedings and that the documents were admissible in evidence under section 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 The defendant was convicted . |
| 14 | Four of the patients who had low grade dysplasia previously were negative for dysplasia at colectomy . |
| 15 | In the Hadziyannis 's series , however , the vast majority of patients were negative for HBeAg in serum or HBcAg in the liver , and there was no quantitative data of pre-S peptide expression in the liver . |
| 16 | Christopher and Francis were deep in conversation about pottery , speaking French . |
| 17 | We were all in need of help . |
| 18 | Large sash windows and a tall narrow front door were all in need of paint , but there was little money to spare , as Harold knew too well . |
| 19 | They also were responsible to Parliament in order to achieve their ends , a fact recognized by both the king and his ministers . |
| 20 | Both patients were homozygous for methionine at codon 129 . |
| 21 | Interestingly , both patients reported on were homozygous for methionine at codon 129 . |
| 22 | Whereas our two first patients were homozygous for methionine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene , the last patient seemed to be heterozygous , encoding a methionine and a valine from each allele . |
| 23 | Diplomatic efforts to deal with the refugee crisis were complicated by lack of consensus among the countries most directly affected . |
| 24 | But some forest landowners were able from time to time to obtain from the Crown a grant of partial exemption from this supervision . |
| 25 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 26 | In general it seems fair to say that rather fewer Zuwaya were concerned with freedom of speech or opinion than with the threats to economic independence , which in their view was more closely bound up with identity and belonging . |
| 27 | Only two members of the Royal Commission ( William Knowles and J. Walter Clarke ) were concerned with redistribution between income groups . |
| 28 | Among the most common directives inadequately implemented were those on freedom of access to environmental information , wild bird protection and environmental impact assessment ( with the UK registering numerous complaints on this issue ) . |
| 29 | The two new posts were those of Minister of Consumer Affairs ( Vincent Peet ) and of Minister of Local Government ( Marvin Pinder ) . |
| 30 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |