Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method . |
| 2 | They were withdrawn at that time but enacted in 1894 along with provisions ‘ to introduce local self-government into rural parishes ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:216 ) . |
| 3 | Pleas about competition were regarded with much suspicion and little sympathy by the trade unions . |
| 4 | To impose upon a man who , through natural causes , has been made ill to a certain extent , very grave injuries such as were sustained by this plaintiff and which reduces his capacity to bear natural ill health , is in my judgment more likely to increase than reduce damages . |
| 5 | Skirmishes and incidents were reported in that area and in Chalatenango , San Vicente , Usulután , San Miguel , Morazán and Cuscatlán . |
| 6 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
| 7 | But in DML 's 1989/90 accounts , John Morris , DML 's former chairman , said that after two submarine refits were cancelled in that year and the workforce cut by nearly 1,500 to 5,000 , any further loss of work would threaten its entire viability . |
| 8 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 9 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 10 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 11 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 12 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 13 | Aircraft which were collected with such discrimination and taste , which were restored using the most scrupulous of standards and which were displayed for us and our children to enjoy at the Tamiami Airport near Miami , Florida . |
| 14 | The NKLP had been formed in August 1946 with the unification of the Korean Communist Party and the Yenan Independence Alliance ; numerous small left-wing parties were absorbed at that time or subsequently . |
| 15 | Economic welfare could be increased if more resources were channelled into this industry and production increased up to Qc with a consequent lowering of prices . |
| 16 | We found that many of the school practices were interpreted in this way and an expression of the general basis of this contemptuous type of offence is found in the following comment . |
| 17 | The same sequences were used for each task and video-tapes were made of each sequence . |
| 18 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 19 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Several drilling jumpers were needed for each shot-hole and three or four holes drilled , fired , and the debris cleared , were about as much as two men could manage in a day . |
| 21 | BL21(DE3) cells were transformed by each plasmid and the cells were grown at 37°C in an LB medium containing 100µg/ml ampicillin until A 600 reached 0.6 , at which time IPTG was added to a final concentration of 1.0mM and the cells were allowed to grow for an additional 3 hours . |
| 22 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 23 | Circles of radius one , two , five and ten kilometres were drawn around each station and the census enumeration district data were used to produce maps and tables showing population numbers , structure and characteristics around each of the stations ' catchment areas . |
| 24 | During 1976 some 200 were sold in this way and pressure was being brought to bear on the company founders to manufacture the completed product . |
| 25 | The people were to identify with this pain and share in God the Father 's pain for his lost children . |
| 26 | Now they were going through another door and into a different kind of room , and this room caused the child to stop and slowly look about her . |
| 27 | Of course lamb and fine burgundy were born for each other and the Chateau Grancey 1982 was memorable . |
| 28 | An average of 2 ( SD=2.5 ) U of packed red cells were transfused in each patient and required 7.7 ( SD=4.4 ) days stay in hospital ( Tables II and III ) . |
| 29 | A number of men were employed on this task but in this month the tonnage was handled only by J. Lace , R. Sarginson and H.Swainson . |
| 30 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |