Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 2 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 3 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 4 | Long spines on the exterior of the shell were developed especially during the Carboniferous . |
| 5 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 6 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 7 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 8 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 9 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 10 | The single cards too were placed variously in the top half , bottom half and crossing the central strip . |
| 11 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 12 | To begin with plasmas were heated solely by the electric current flowing through the discharge , in a way similar to the ohmic heating of a wire element . |
| 13 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 14 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 15 | The songs of the whales carry through the water , over long distances with astonishing clarity , and were heard clearly through the wooden hulls of the old whaling ships in calm weather , giving rise to the belief that the sounds were the songs of mermaids . |
| 16 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 17 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 18 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 19 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 20 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 21 | When the car became an open tourer , the hood and supports were tucked away behind the leather-covered front seats and concealed by a sheet of green hessian . |
| 22 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 23 | Three large gravity-feed fuel tanks were situated immediately beneath the upper wing centre-section , each tank feeding an individual engine . |
| 24 | On May 7 the Executive Yuan lifted martial law on the offshore islands of Matsu and Chinmen ( Quemoy ) , both of which were situated close to the Chinese mainland . |
| 25 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 26 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 27 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 28 | Germany , the principal ex-enemy state , lying at the heart of Europe , presented complex problems in 1945 , not least because it was placed under joint occupation by the Big Three and France who were joined together in an Allied Control Council . |
| 29 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 30 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |