Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It followed a week in which more than 120 people were reported killed in township fighting . |
| 2 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 3 | Patients were separated according to ulcer location ( gastric or duodenal ) and then randomised into control and treatment groups . |
| 4 | The party considered that a building programme of 11 000 new dwellings over a 5-year period was required of which 3000 were needed to deal with slum clearance , 2000 to clear the priority waiting lists and a further 6000 for general waiting list applications . |
| 5 | People were getting educated to endowment assurance you see . |
| 6 | While genuinely instrumental styles had emerged in keyboard and lute music and were beginning to emerge in ensemble music , the problem of purely instrumental construction remained unsolved except in the short dance-forms . |
| 7 | By such means their position and power were enhanced and the material means were provided to set in motion community activities . |
| 8 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 9 | Earlier he told the conference that only 4.5 million people were left working in manufacturing industry in Britain . |
| 10 | When the data were divided according to head circumference and ponderal index ( table II ) the highest standardised mortality ratio for cardiovascular disease ( 119 ) was in men who had both small head circumference and low ponderal index at birth . |
| 11 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 12 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 13 | She was expected to join in class work , but her pain and spasticity increased because of the physical efforts she was making , and because of her stress . |
| 14 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 15 | It was decided to put in hand production of a further set of four photographs . |
| 16 | As Officer Commanding , 4 Ferry Pool at Prestwick , McGuinness was instructed to act as Liaison Officer on behalf of the ATA which was to be directly involved in the critical transfer . |
| 17 | At approximately 1302 hours the aircraft was instructed to change to Goose terminal control frequently at which time the aircraft was about 110 nautical miles from Goose Bay . |
| 18 | Once I was told to cut to ground level everything in the border , which I did . |
| 19 | β-actin was used to control for RNA loading , and Eb was used as an internal control for the number of class II MHC expressing cells . |
| 20 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 21 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |
| 22 | He was going to feed on honey dew and drink the milk of Paradise . |
| 23 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 24 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 25 | First , at the time Jones had no idea what a storm was going to erupt about test-tube fusion and in notifying the DOE of his possible conflict of interest he was already being exceedingly conscientious and could , for example , have chosen instead to have remained an anonymous reviewer as far as the chemists were concerned . |
| 26 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 27 | The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church . |
| 28 | And at this point he sat up in bed , said ‘ White Rabbits ! ’ aloud , to bring luck throughout the coming month , and looked eagerly out of the window into the dewy sunshine which was beginning to shimmer on Thrush Green . |
| 29 | She was summoned to wait upon Dona Marguerita at noon the following day . |
| 30 | Vincent Hickey , 38 , was moved out of Long Lartin top security jail last weekend after he was found bleeding from razor slash injuries , but is now refusing food at Birmingham 's Winson Green jail . |