Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |
| 32 | These agents were given in a total voluem of 1.5 ml , a 0.5 ml bolus injection , followed by a continuous infusion of 1 ml over a one hour period . |
| 33 | Holly saw the confusion of the guards ' officers and NCOs , the way that instructions were given in a frantic pitch and confronted by the sullen amusement of the zeks . |
| 34 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 35 | Details about the alleged incident were given by a prosecuting lawyer at Belfast Crown Court in the trial of three Londonderry men . |
| 36 | Parades of shabby shops , gathered like mongrel dogs on a street corner , were parted by a grim council estate , and then reassembled . |
| 37 | An experiment was once performed where the acids were heated in a dry state to 150°F , to be immersed in warm water later . |
| 38 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 39 | By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin . |
| 40 | Any whether worries were eased by a gradual lifting of the gloom as England went in again . |
| 41 | potatoes and then they were boiled in a big boiler . |
| 42 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 43 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 44 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 45 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 46 | Parts of the Lacandona forest were designated as a biological reserve earlier this year [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 47 | Although those terrifying Latin countries were building in a classical style by then , England preferred her own flights of fancy . |
| 48 | The building works associated with this Contract were undertaken at a total cost of £800,000 by G.J. Seddon Limited , Builders and Contractors , within the specified contract period . |
| 49 | Most ventures were undertaken by a joint-stock company authorised by act of parliament to raise a capital sum from a share issue and supplementary capital by borrowing . |
| 50 | Double-distilled water ( milli-Q quality ) and ARISTAR grade reagents were used throughout ; all immunostaining procedures were undertaken in a closed container to minimize airborne contamination . |
| 51 | These were undertaken in a fundamental research program that set out to compare various models proposed for a CAD system . |
| 52 | Bir Zeit was the largest university in the West Bank and the election results were regarded as a good indicator of general Palestinian support for the two main competing groups , the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
| 53 | His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution . |
| 54 | If , however , liquidity were regarded as a scarce commodity , then the bond price would fall as the degree of liquidity rose , in which case the coefficient on the liquidity measure would be negative . |
| 55 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
| 56 | Before the stories of Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman , two educated deaf and blind ladies in America , became known , deaf and blind people were regarded as a great curiosity . |
| 57 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
| 58 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 59 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
| 60 | Last-minute trips to Boston by the employment minister , Ruari Quinn , and local mayor , Padric McCormack , were regarded as a face-saving exercise — something to be seen to be done . |