Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 2 | Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end . |
| 3 | Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards . |
| 4 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 5 | In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties . |
| 6 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 7 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 8 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 9 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 10 | I shall then discuss two theories of literary language and of the literary text as a whole , which were developed under the joint influence of Saussure and the Russian Formalists . |
| 11 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 12 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 13 | The fundamental point to make is that the standards were developed for the private sector , without local government in mind . |
| 14 | The R-series and Sparc versions of Unix System V.4.2 announced last week ( CI No 2,131 ) were developed with the respective help of NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd : the R-series version was implemented on the NEC EWS 4800/210 workstation to create the reference version , while the Sparc version was developed in conjunction with Fujitsu , using the DS/90 7000 series and the ICL Plc DRS 6000 as reference systems ; shipments of the two new versions are due to begin from March 31 . |
| 15 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 16 | In the interval , policies were developed at a slower pace than the rate the problems multiplied with which they were intended to deal . |
| 17 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 18 | These weapons were developed from the long-barrelled hunting weapons used in Hochland , and their long barrels make them very accurate . |
| 19 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 20 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 21 | Several underground and opencast fluorspar deposits ( with associated baryte and galena ) were developed in the Northern Pennine ( Weardale mines ) and the Southern Pennine ( Sallet Hole and Long Rake mines ) orefields . |
| 22 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 23 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 24 | Training materials were developed by the Scottish Office in collaboration with colleges of education . |
| 25 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 26 | In the fifth century rectangular and sunken buildings were erected over an earlier farm and its fields . |
| 27 | In the towns many new churches were erected with the financial provision of the 1818 ‘ Million Act ’ and in the countryside squires and parishioners restored or substantially rebuilt thousands of medieval churches . |
| 28 | Barricades were erected at the precise boundary of the two religious communities in an area of no-man's-land between a Catholic cathedral and a Protestant church , both rumoured to be threatened by attack . |
| 29 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 30 | About the same date [ 1834 ] a range of Loose Boxes and Stalls were erected in the Lower Paddock near to the Ditch . |