Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ages 0–14 and 15–24 age standardised rates were calculated as simple averages of the age specific rates for the five year age groups they contained . |
| 2 | Thus , the customs or more exactly the usages , on formal markets — for example , the London Corn Trade Association , the London Stock Exchange , and the London Tallow Market — as well as those in particular trades and professions , were recognized and given effect to . |
| 3 | It is to the credit of the New Zealand breeders that these faults were recognized and several imports from the UK were made specifically to help with this problem , notably NZ Ch. |
| 4 | Twelve areas were identified and ten were designated as national parks in England and Wales between 1950 and 1955 ( Bell 1975 ) . |
| 5 | By this time , Telford Avenue and Brixton Hill were regarded as one depôt for administrative purposes , they were not very far apart and were no longer shown separately in car allocation lists . |
| 6 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 7 | During the course of the four hours , twenty-four cups of coffee were consumed and any amount of light snacks . |
| 8 | Although only Nicaragua and the United States were parties to the original litigation , the United States claimed that its actions in and against Nicaragua were justified as collective self-defence of the territorial integrity and political independence of those third States , in particular of El Salvador . |
| 9 | Instead of being treated as our own ancestors , the Neanderthals of Europe and the more primitive ‘ Java man ’ were dismissed as distinct forms of pseudo-humanity , driven into marginal locations by the expansion of true humans with a more advanced level of intelligence . |
| 10 | The rotors were intended as auxiliary sources of power , and , as such , to be run only in an envelope of conditions useful for their operation . |
| 11 | Now the pains were returning but 4 weeks after Arg Nit LM2 she was able to say that the digestive symptoms had been negligible . |
| 12 | For Plato these ‘ universals ’ were located as ideal Forms in an abstract world which was accessible to our intellect and thought . |
| 13 | However , we shall consider both projects together here , as they were designed as two phases of a single , integrated research programme . |
| 14 | The December 1989 referendum and new Constitution were designed as major elements in this process , while in the preceding two years several former opposition leaders were given Cabinet posts . |
| 15 | Points were dropped and three defeats over Christmas , which left Arsenal trailing five points behind Everton , made the Double look like something of a pipe dream . |
| 16 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 17 | They were organised and formidable teams before its formation . |
| 18 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 19 | Several people were injured and serious damage to property was incurred . |
| 20 | Inadequate cost-accounting practices , poor marketing , bad industrial relations , slow rates of technical innovation : all these were revealed as major weaknesses in comparisons drawn between Britain and her major competitors [ Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 21 | Many were built as focal points of vistas that have since been obscured by trees ; others stood in the centre of a grove of trees . |
| 22 | Daily blood samples were collected and 4 ml of every sample were used as counting standards . |
| 23 | Observational and interview data or developmentally salient aspects of Unit life were collected as supplementary data during a study of the development of children in prison Mother and Baby Units . |
| 24 | The families were relocated and paid compensation by the government . |
| 25 | As in the case of the SYMAP examples earlier in this chapter , the facilities of the Cripps Computer Centre at Nottingham University were used and specific examples of Job Control commands will require modification to suit the requirements of your computer system . |
| 26 | Political study classes , considered as a boring waste of time' by many students , were intensified and large doses of Communist ideology had to be learned by rote . |
| 27 | In the decade following independence , a number of vertically integrated companies were founded as joint ventures with foreign partners , some with minority government participation . |
| 28 | Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ . |
| 29 | Bruises on Maria were pronounced and regular proof of assaults , culminating in the broken collar bone of the previous October . |
| 30 | To be a spinster was one thing ; to be a married woman with or without children , or a recently-bereaved widow , all were recognised and acceptable roles in society . |