Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 3 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 4 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 5 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 6 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 7 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 8 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 9 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 10 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 11 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 12 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 13 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 14 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 15 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 16 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 17 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 18 | They were picked up by a Kalafrana H.S.L. ( High Speed Launch ) and proved to be the crew of a Ju87 . |
| 19 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 20 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 21 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 22 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 23 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 24 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 25 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 26 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 27 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 28 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 29 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 30 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |