Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 2 | Within seconds of each other , the two remaining freighters were ripped apart in great swathes of flame , sending white hot metal and sprays of burning oil through the cavern . |
| 3 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 4 | Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation . |
| 5 | But such work often involves using older and younger women as tests of psychological theories which were developed mainly from male samples , like theories of moral development ( Gilligan 1982 ) , adolescence ( Beckett 1986 ) , transfer into the job market ( Griffin 1986 ) , and middle age ( Barnett and Baruch 1985 ) . |
| 6 | The electronic versions of these documents might be crucial if the historians wanted to understand how the documents were developed especially in those environments where cooperative work software or groupware had been used to enhance the performance of those producing documents . |
| 7 | The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers . |
| 8 | A flower study by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter , Baptiste , is certainly by the artist , and bears his signature : but the blooms ( and signature ) were pieced together from pirated canvases . |
| 9 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 10 | These marquees , lined with blue awnings over blue carpeting , were arranged regimentally on either side of grassy alleys that were already adorned with banks of flowers . |
| 11 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 12 | The very positive research findings about children who have been adopted ( including those described by Triseliotis who were placed later from disturbed backgrounds ) , are all largely about children who were adopted with their parents ' consent . |
| 13 | Moving closer , Miles watched as strips of blubber were placed along with heated stones into canoes filled with water . |
| 14 | The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents . |
| 15 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 16 | After diagnosis of hypercalcaemia ( corrected serum calcium >2.85 mmol/L ) , 2–3 L of 0.9% sodium chloride were given intravenously over 8–12 h for rehydration . |
| 17 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 18 | The late nineteenth century saw an ‘ eclipse of Darwinism ’ in which the supporters of natural selection were marginalized even within scientific biology . |
| 19 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 20 | It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that the Danakil attached to this practice , rating as they did a man 's prowess by the number of his kills ; many raids were undertaken principally for this purpose . |
| 21 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 22 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 23 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 24 | From 1895 to 1926 , the children — never more than 17 at any one time — were taught largely by one person , a Miss F. Bodily . |
| 25 | The dining tables were tucked away in high-sided compartments like old-fashioned church pews . |
| 26 | His remarks — to the Berlin press club — were received gleefully by senior EC officials in Strasbourg as evidence of US support for their view about how the community should evolve in the new European situation . |
| 27 | They were treated endoscopically with standard plastic stens with one of these patients ultimately requiring surgical drainage . |
| 28 | Inadequate army contract work was given ; societies were treated unfairly by military tribunals , on many of which sat rival local shopkeepers ; the Cooperative Union was deliberately ignored in government discussions on imports and rationing ; and the restricted distribution of goods , based on prewar levels , took no account of increasing membership of the societies ( Webb and Webb 1922 ) . |
| 29 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 30 | However , young women were also often very critical of the way in which they were treated differently to young men . |