Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dane , co-pilot Steve Johnsone , 25 , winchman Paul Trethewy , 33 , and radar man Glenn Holmes , 35 , were recovering back at base last night . |
| 2 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 3 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 4 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 5 | In addition to numerous small enquiries related to the war effort , major investigations were carried out on projects such as the proposed Mid-Scotland Ship Canal and suitable sites for hydroelectric schemes . |
| 6 | Two national surveys of District General Managers ( DGMs ) were carried out in November 1990 and January 1992 , paralleled by surveys of all acute providers in the West Midlands Region with more intensive study of four case study districts in the same region ( Appleby et al. |
| 7 | That night and Monday morning , acts of sabotage were carried out by persons unknown on a shed , an excavator , tractor type machinery , a drilling rig and pipes . |
| 8 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 9 | The Israeli army denied claims by Islamic Jihad that three of their members flying hang gliders to attack Israel were shot down on Oct. 29 in southern Lebanon . |
| 10 | 2nd Lt Schroeder and crew were shot down by Bf 109s . |
| 11 | It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones . |
| 12 | Between 1984 and 1988 , prices spiralled : Bunnys were fetching up to A$ 1,000,000 ; Glover 's ‘ Bath of Diana ’ fetched A$1,706,000 ( Sotheby 's Melbourne , April 1989 ) and Bond paid A$ 210,000 for Conrad Martens ' ‘ Woolloomooloo Farm ’ ( Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | The implications were spelt out in Article 41 , paragraphs 2 and 3 , which pledged the state to protect marriage and the family and forbade divorce . |
| 14 | As one of the final stages in the government 's privatization programme , three major state-owned steel companies were sold off on Nov. 20 for a total price of $885,000,000 . |
| 15 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 16 | On Aug. 13 , 1989 , Richard Darman , head of the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) , publicly warned that high interest rates could bring about a recession , but such differences of opinion were played down on Oct. 13 by the Secretary of the Treasury , Nicholas Brady . |
| 17 | The hunger strikes were called off on Oct. 20 , although the PPD said that it would continue its boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 18 | The strikes were called off on May 23 after an appeal from Gorbachev . |
| 19 | De Vere Hotels pulled out of negotiations and the receivers — again Touche Ross — were called in during April this year . |
| 20 | The receivers were called in by Burlington International in Northampton today and all ( 400 ) workers sent home . |
| 21 | Eight of the bodies were brought back to Lyneham last week . |
| 22 | Troops were brought in on March 24 to quell the unrest , and a wave of arrests began among Albanian activists . |
| 23 | MCI Communications Corp said it has gained 10,000 new toll-free telephone numbers since portable numbers were brought in on May 1 , including about 6,500 new numbers acquired from AT&T Co : a total of more than 1m commercial 800 numbers were ‘ officially freed ’ to change . |
| 24 | ENGLAND men failed to turn their silver into gold in the European Championships in Stuttgart last night as they were brought down to earth 4–1 by Sweden in the final of the men 's team event . |
| 25 | The new Cabinet members were sworn in on Dec. 21 . |
| 26 | Mitsotakis and his 38-member Cabinet ( including alternate and junior ministers ) were sworn in on April 11 . |
| 27 | Gen. Joao de Matos , hitherto chief of the government 's ground forces , and Gen. Ahilo Camalata Numa , commander of UNITA 's northern front , were sworn in on Nov. 14 as the Supreme Command of Angola 's armed forces . |
| 28 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 29 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 30 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |