Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the edge of the plain the outriders that Burun had planted were galloping back to join the main body . |
| 2 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 3 | Planned comparisons of means of incremental areas were carried out using the multivariate general linear hypothesis to determine the substances that caused a significant increase in PYY and enteroglucagon concentrations from basal . |
| 4 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 5 | Faded blue velvet curtains , worn in places and with dust lying along the folds , were pushed back to allow the last of the light to enter the room . |
| 6 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 7 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 8 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 9 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 10 | After 5 min of stable oxygen saturation ( pulse oximetry ) , patients were crossed over to receive the other treatment . |
| 11 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |
| 12 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 13 | ‘ Crowds would block a street simply to see Archer leave a hotel and take a cab ; when he married in January 1883 , special trains were laid on to bring the cheering crowds to Newmarket and Cambridge . |
| 14 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 15 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 16 | She barely mouthed the word , but already , as if she was possessed by something beyond her control , her hands were reaching up to touch the black curl of his hair , agonisingly shy as she felt the clean , silky texture beneath her fingers . |
| 17 | Research grants were worked out using the national research ratings published by the University Funding Council last year . |
| 18 | The Arches were subsequently cleared of infestation and the public were allowed in to view the prehistoric relics . |
| 19 | And there you see again in early B R days , er the er the station master 's house , and er er and the station itself , over here , the goods shed over there , the various track works coming across , the er line up to round here , and as I say the various sidings that were put in to accommodate the additional er colliery and other traffic . |
| 20 | A hundred tapes and more than 800 workbooks were sent out to cover the 300-plus employees in company-owned stores . |
| 21 | Ukrainian sources claimed that ninety-two wagons of grain were collected from starving Ukrainian gubernii , of which thirty-six were sent off to feed the hungry in the Volga-Ural area . |
| 22 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 23 | Only once the verdicts were read out did the tormented families get a clue about why Allitt attacked defenceless babies , becoming Britain 's worst woman serial killer this century . |
| 24 | The radioallergosorbent test ( RAST ) was carried out to detect the circulating cow 's milk specific IgE antibodies , and also the serum total IgE values were measured before starting the challenge . |
| 25 | This study was carried out to examine the two decade trends in the incidence and death from pancreatitis , and to evaluate the relations between the occurrence of pancreatitis and alcohol consumption , liver cirrhosis , and gall stone disease in Finland . |
| 26 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 27 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 28 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 29 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 30 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |