Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 2 | It was decided that , to safeguard the future of the species , a population of at least 200 breeding adults would be kept safely in captivity , while other animals were gambled in an experimental reintroduction . |
| 3 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
| 4 | The gill openings were arranged in an oblique line as in lampreys . |
| 5 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 6 | After a 16 hour fast , rats ( n=16/treatment group ) were sedated by an intramuscular injection of 0.1 ml Hypnorm ( fentanyl citrate 0.315 mg/ml , fluanisone 10 mg/ml ; Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd , Oxford , UK ) and 0.25 mg diazepam . |
| 7 | It was not until 1923 that the sexes , on this ground , were placed on an equal footing . |
| 8 | there was no duty of care imposed where the children were placed in an independent school approved by the secretary of state . |
| 9 | Both the current state of play within the discipline , and some indications as to future transformations , were given in an inaugural lecture by the new professor of English Literature ( G. I Bickersteth ) at Aberdeen on 12 October 1938 ( the exact date is not without significance , as will be seen ) . |
| 10 | The cars loaded in Talbot Square by the side of the Clifton Hotel , which was also the terminus of the Marton route , and were shedded in an enlarged Marton depot . |
| 11 | During this period of contraction , both passenger and freight services were withdrawn at an alarming rate , being substituted by short-lived bus services and road freight transport . |
| 12 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 13 | If the ‘ Hooligans ’ were regarded as an un-English phenomenon , they were also understood as an entirely unprecedented development and respectable England felt itself to have been suddenly engulfed in a new rush of crime . |
| 14 | The results — 66 per cent for the PLO , 33 per cent for Hamas and 1 per cent for Islamic Jihad — were regarded as an important signal of the depth of support for the PLO mainstream and its policy of negotiation with Israel . |
| 15 | As well as the cash and the cup they were treated to an executive night out at the scene of their triumphs , the Superbowl at Stoke-on-Trent 's Festival Park . |
| 16 | For our final talk in the previously arranged programme ( note the earlier comment on the Shrewsbury signal box visit ) we were treated to an excellent talk on the Central Wales Line by Mr Tony Birdwood of Llanwrda . |
| 17 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 18 | Apart from the pension gain , more than half of which was taken in the form of lower interest charges , spinning rationalisation costs of almost £10million were treated as an extraordinary levy . |
| 19 | Apart from the pension gain , more than half of which was taken in the form of lower interest charges , spinning rationalisation costs of almost £10million were treated as an extraordinary levy . |
| 20 | Instead the courts were treated as an amoral source of power which could be used by those skilful enough to manipulate them . |
| 21 | Rectal tissue sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin from all the monozygotic twins were examined by an experienced pathologist with regard to inflammatory changes . |
| 22 | Thus in Israel associations were formed on an industry-wide basis which usually coincided with product and labour markets ( Shirom and Jacobson , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | And so the way to counteract the disease was to rid the body of its ill-balanced humours by means of blood-letting , laxatives or emetics — the three standard methods by which patients were hastened to an early death . |
| 24 | He feels that Keyser 's problems were hastened by an unwise acquisition . |
| 25 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 26 | Stocks of petrol were low , and late one afternoon cars passing the orderly room were stopped by an irate major-general , who berated us for using valuable petrol at such a time of crisis . |
| 27 | The Lewis home was rented for enough to cover its mortgage , and Jocasta and Tina were enrolled in an English boarding school famous for its high fees , flexible academic requirements and tolerant attitude towards the screwed-up children of wealthy foreigners . |
| 28 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 29 | He did not elaborate on the usual roles played by a king 's sons , who in fact were expected from an early age to join in their father 's business , as envoys and generals , counsellors as long as they remained in their father 's household , and rulers of sub-kingdoms as and when regna were available . |
| 30 | But of course these rights were contained within an ideological framework which stressed domesticity and in many ways , as we know , worked to restress the importance of female chastity . |