Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 2 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 3 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 4 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 5 | As population grew and harvests failed more often , attitudes towards the rate-receiving poor hardened , especially after the food crisis of 1795 – 6 when even firmly rising rents were outpaced by the soaring poor rate . |
| 6 | Differences between groups were calculated with the two tailed Student 's t test ; p<0.05 was considered significant . |
| 7 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
| 8 | Practice ski lessons were arranged at the local dry ski slope . |
| 9 | The demonstrations were arranged by the Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) , an organization formed in December 1989 [ see p. 37124 ] and given official recognition on Dec. 22 by the Mongolian parliament , the People 's Great Hural . |
| 10 | Over 100 stocks were listed with a total nominal value of just under £125 billion and a market value slightly in excess of this . |
| 11 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 12 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
| 13 | Last year provided an instance of that , when the television cameras were congregated around the right hon. Gentleman 's home at the time of his departure from Government . |
| 14 | All 20 patients were placed on a 2200 kcal diet containing 80 g/day of fat . |
| 15 | Management then asked the workers to leave the premises and pickets were placed by the 27 night-shift workers . |
| 16 | They were placed in a mature planted tank on their own with a dense cloud of daphnia ( as security and food ) , along with twenty tadpoles . |
| 17 | In all 79 competitors completed the event but the day belonged to the juniors — four of whom were placed in the top ten . |
| 18 | The subjects were placed in the left lateral position with hips and knees flexed to 90° . |
| 19 | If the properties were placed in the next lower band , F , the Council Tax reduces to £1,085 . |
| 20 | Due to their weight and size the ancient fossils were handled with military precision as they were placed inside the monstrous fire-breathing cart . |
| 21 | All the possible approaches were guarded by the best Italian troops , and fighting a way inwards entailed a series of attacks and counter-attacks . |
| 22 | Cabinet posts were given to the centre-right Haitian Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and the right-wing Mobilization for National Development ( MDN ) party , as well as to Panpra , to strengthen Bazin 's claim that he headed a genuine coalition government . |
| 23 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 24 | In the year ending 30 September 1972 planning permissions were given for an estimated 76,000 such dwellings , but only 52,000 were started . |
| 25 | And in the city 's claim for a grant , figures for the Newtown and Ladywood districts were given as a shocking 514.61 crimes for every 1,000 people living there . |
| 26 | Initiatives on recruitment and retention of staff were highlighted by a major national campaign run jointly by the Department of Health and Nursing Times in 1988 . |
| 27 | And always she and Doyle made sure that their bodies were shielded by the other two . |
| 28 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 29 | Armed with this tool for diagnosing asymptomatic carriers of the infection and those who had been infected in the past , several screening studies were undertaken in the early seventies , and to many people 's surprise the incidence of past and present infection was found to be very high amongst those attending departments of venereology or genito-urinary medicine . |
| 30 | Although measurements in small watersheds were undertaken in the late nineteenth century , it was after the mid twentieth century that the movement developed very rapidly and absorbed the attention of some physical geographers . |