Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his proposals for high rises in the following year were intended to send an unambiguous message to the City that the public debt will be curbed . |
| 2 | Instructors were expected to attend an instructional techniques course since the skill to instruct well was every bit as important as the craft skill . |
| 3 | The budget deficit was K514,000,000 before taking into account grants and loans , which were expected to leave an overall deficit of K102,000,000 [ see p. 36993 for previous year 's budget figures ] . |
| 4 | Compared with the national average of about 450 , Dr Simm figured that the top 5% of herds at 650 CGI were expected to achieve an extra £200 a cow a lactation . |
| 5 | They were caught using an electronic tone pad to bypass call charges at kiosks on their campus . |
| 6 | An adulterous wife might be the means of implanting a fraudulent claimant upon its property in the heart of the family ; to avoid this ultimate catastrophe , middle class women were regulated to observe an inviolable rule of chastity . |
| 7 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 8 | In the late nineteenth century efforts were made to build an organized system of policing , but rural districts remained largely unpoliced until the twentieth century . |
| 9 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 10 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 11 | so they were going to have an easy time . |
| 12 | We were going to have an 80-foot Brussels sprout flying above Battersea Power Station — and it nearly happened ! |
| 13 | As an outcome of that meeting , home owners and managers were invited to attend an exploratory meeting at the local hospital . |
| 14 | College staff were invited to take an active part in helping SCOTVEC to develop the new operating procedures — a proactive role for colleges is seen as essential to the introduction of efficient , easy to use systems . |
| 15 | Many golfers remark about the attractiveness and variety of plant and animal life seen on the course , so to establish exactly what was there , representatives of B.B.O.N.T. ( Berks , Bucks and Oxon Naturalists Trust ) were invited to conduct an all-seasons survey . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 1 ) strict rules of evidence were inherently inappropriate in a court concerned to decide whether there were substantial grounds for believing something , such as a court considering an application under the Bail Act 1976 ; ( 2 ) when considering an opposed application for bail justices were bound to investigate an alleged change of circumstance but where they erred by refusing so to do their subsequent order was not rendered void , although a court with appropriate jurisdiction could interfere to set it aside . |
| 17 | The new rules were bound to have an adverse effect on the general public 's attitude to the Society and before long it was obvious that the papingo shoot was losing its popularity with ordinary people , even as a spectacle . |
| 18 | Other ladies standing nearby were beginning to take an amused interest in this interchange between the domineering retired school-teacher , who had ruled many of them when they were young , and Donna Frizzell , who could tear a character to pieces in three minutes with her sharp tongue . |
| 19 | They should let the people who were responsible for it see that they were beginning to take an active interest in what was the most important issue of the time . |
| 20 | In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices . |
| 21 | By 1300 such men were coming to form an essential part of the Italian military and political scene . |
| 22 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 23 | After 1h at 37°C , wells were washed six times with BSA , HBSS and adherent ( fluorescent ) LC were counted using an inverted phase fluorescence microscope . |
| 24 | The daily combat practice sessions were starting to have an interesting effect on Alexei 's ability to control his temper , but since it was essential to beat him every time , they were also very hard work . |
| 25 | For students with two or fewer missing responses the values on the individual items were summed to yield an overall score between 0 and 12 . |
| 26 | When tested at ages 12 to 16 years , these girls were found to have an average I Q of 54 . |
| 27 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 28 | All major clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis were found to have an increased incidence in diabetics ( Garcia et al , 1974 ) . |
| 29 | The purified endonucleases from both the wild type and the temperature-sensitive systems were found to have an identical ratio of subunits ( 2:2:1-HsdR:HsdM:HsdS ) . |
| 30 | Children were asked to design an interpretative poster which highlighted the vulnerability and needs of Britain 's threatened otter population . |