Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 2 | The actual sales were expected to begin in the second half of 1991 . |
| 3 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 4 | We were asked to sit in the third and fourth rows and the lower school children filed in . |
| 5 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 6 | SANDHURST SHIELD holders Orrell Red Triangle were sent crashing in the first round of this year 's competition in the Southport Cricket League . |
| 7 | Doubts about a rapid economic up-turn had been expressed by US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , who at a parallel meeting of G-7 finance ministers indicated that economic growth in the US was expected to slow in the second quarter of 1992 although longer-term prospects were more hopeful . |
| 8 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 9 | Dolphin 's Motorola Inc 88110-based Triton SCI Server , which was scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year , will be kept under wraps for at least another year , the company says . |
| 10 | The drawing was firmly attributed to the artist when it was last sold in Munich in 1938 , but was believed lost in the last war . |