Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 2 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 3 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
| 4 | Since both of us were going to meet the same plane , one of us was definitely going the wrong way . |
| 5 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads . |
| 7 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 8 | It follows criticism that the authorities were failing to provide the same level of help for drug users which is available outside prison . |
| 9 | Where possible , data items were cross checked against one another and the establishments were asked to clarify the few inconsistencies that arose . |
| 10 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 11 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 12 | To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli . |
| 13 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 14 | was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules . |
| 15 | A third approach was considered to exhibit the least disadvantages . |
| 16 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
| 17 | I was going to say the same thing . |
| 18 | It was a surprise to find that she was beginning to feel the same way about it herself . |
| 19 | His daughter was fated to face the same problem . |
| 20 | In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later . |
| 21 | 61% of the sample would be not at all concerned if a mentally handicapped child was allowed to attend the same school as their child |
| 22 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 23 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 24 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 25 | In the second investigation , a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document . |
| 26 | The OALD was indexed using the same technique as that applied to the CED , and used as the source of definitions by the overlap program . |
| 27 | This beautiful long-haired tortoiseshell kitten was chosen to symbolise the many kittens and cats rescued by the R.S.P.C.A. each year . |