Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counter this effect , a number of NLP systems were developed to extract information about terrorist incident from a test suite of 100 previously unseen news articles . |
| 2 | Of these , almost 20% were arranged to provide support for staff development activities organised by the centre or the Region . |
| 3 | Angry neighbours said they had repeatedly alerted officers and council officials after Jason Harry , six , and his sister Natalia , five , were heard screaming week after week . |
| 4 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 5 | Before dawn , I was in the sleeping-bag , propping myself up on an elbow , Bible in one hand , torch in the other , flicking the beam periodically to the right of my legs , where the small aluminium pan and stove were struggling to boil water for tea . |
| 6 | While he declared that the Lebanese , Syrian and Iranian governments were to continue to support resistance to Israel , he was believed to have given some undertakings to the Lebanese government on restraining Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon . |
| 7 | The LBA funds were intended to supply relief to drought victims . |
| 8 | The cautioning guidelines were intended to ensure consistency among police forces , but in fact they gave chief constables wide discretion . |
| 9 | Souter also refused to reveal his views , stating that he would refrain from commenting on any judicial issues prior to his confirmation hearings which were expected to take place in September 1990 . |
| 10 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 11 | The woman cyclist was another object of fearful contemplation , and there were snide allusions to the improper ‘ rational costumes ’ women were adopting to facilitate travel by bike , as well as their recklessness in traffic . |
| 12 | Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent . |
| 13 | Said Chris Alderson , Head of Service Quality Development , ‘ The two schemes were designed to give recognition to staff who provide outstanding service . |
| 14 | The mental health centres , from which so much was expected for the future , were designed to become self-funding from fees and diverse agency support . |
| 15 | Masterman 's systematic comparison of the two narratives indicates how some aspects of commentary were modified to reduce evidence of bias revealed by comparisons with ITN 's almost simultaneous broadcast . |
| 16 | The bulk of the destruction occurred during the 1950s and 1960s when the trees were felled to provide land for agriculture or for re-planting with conifers . |
| 17 | Bookshop roadshows were organised to improve contact with schools of architecture in the region . |
| 18 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 19 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
| 20 | Private-sector employers were instructed to follow suit by Aug. 11 . |
| 21 | Between 1695 and 1705 four attempts were made to restrict membership of Parliament to men of landed wealth , in the belief that men of such independent means would be less susceptible to Court bribery , until eventually a Land Qualification Bill was passed in 1711 . |
| 22 | Although attempts were made to freeze activity on accounts in London by the US authorities , these were resisted . |
| 23 | Similar efforts were made to obtain evidence from Switzerland and the United States of America . |
| 24 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 25 | In the meantime , in a separate incident , a number of people are awaiting sentence after hollowed-out onions were used to smuggle cannabis into Worcester . |
| 26 | Daniel Field 's new products for 1992 were used to get hair in peak condition , making it manageable and easier to style . |
| 27 | Most of these problems had occurred when people were attempting to gain access to training and during training . |
| 28 | Three designers were commissioned to produce work for consideration , and The Scotsman has again agreed to sponsor the creation of these awards . |
| 29 | These people were needed to give advice on policy and industrial matters . |
| 30 | Factory and farm managers were told to save electricity during peak hours , and households were asked to reduce electricity consumption by 10 per cent weekly or face power cuts . |