Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two million cells in 3μl were slowly injected under ether anaesthesia through the right frontal skull into the subarachnoid space using a 10μl Hamilton syringe . |
| 2 | If managers were better informed of practice activity before 1990 and spent time equipping general practitioners instead of attacking them , they would learn from the general practitioner how to maintain quality of care . |
| 3 | Perceptions of party chances were obviously influenced by opinion poll findings . |
| 4 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 5 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 6 | McClellan carried out his original experiments in logistics during the period 1950–65 , but the results were not encapsulated in book form until the appearance of The logistics of a public library bookstock in 1978 . |
| 7 | Further , the presence of these hypersensitive sites is appropriately regulated and these sites are found only in those tissues which normally express class II MHC , as DH sites corresponding to the Ea transgene were not detected in brain tissue isolated from Long 12 transgenics ( data not shown ) . |
| 8 | I could understand that and was delighted when I saw people realising that we most certainly were not steeped in Factory greyness . ’ |
| 9 | The Guild members were not asked about birth control in the questionnaire that elicited these letters , so it is all the more surprising that twenty women volunteered the information that they either used or approved of contraception . |
| 10 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 11 | He suggested that these came from samples produced by " bandwagon jumpers " who were not complying with Soil Association regulations . |
| 12 | They were not deterred by air action . |
| 13 | One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine . |
| 14 | Pools of water , presumably derived from this source , were observed on the upper parts of the beach and were not saturated with calcium carbonate . |
| 15 | Before the Second World War , there were , apart from those from the Royal Humane Society and Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , no appropriate awards that could be given to civilians who had performed outstanding or exceptional deeds of bravery ( the George Cross and George Medal were not instituted until World War II ) . |
| 16 | Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) . |
| 17 | The letter concludes : ’ We feel that this situation would not have arisen if ERCs were not included in health authority budgets . |
| 18 | Contests over perquisites were not confined to textile manufacture . |
| 19 | Articles 85 and 86 were designed to attack anti-competitive agreements and abusive monopolisation and were not drafted with merger control in mind . |
| 20 | Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return . |
| 21 | Colonic crypts were easily separated from lamina propria mucosa by agitating fragments of mucosa obtained by incubation with EDTA . |
| 22 | It certainly contributed to holding down inflation , so that the money wages generated by the high demand for labour were easily translated into product wage increases and the necessary scrapping rates achieved . |
| 23 | He pointed out that large groups such as Hilton and Holiday Inns were already investing in fire protection beyond the minimum requirements . |
| 24 | Extended to journalism , the rules were directly challenged by Circuit Judge Pickles . |
| 25 | These depositors were less likely to make sudden substantial withdrawals , which allowed for lower cash reserves : profit without risk , especially since lendings were usually secured on land mortgage . |
| 26 | High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens , the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks . |
| 27 | He smoked constantly and his clothes were always smeared with cigarette ash . |
| 28 | The petite marmite , the pot au feu , the croûte au pot were made with rich beef , veal and chicken stock ; the fillets of sole were invariably cooked with truffles and cream or with mushrooms and lobster sauce , with artichoke hearts or with white wine and grapes ; noisettes d'agneau , from the finest baby lamb , made such frequent appearances on the menu that one wonders how any sheep has survived ; the chicken was stuffed with a mousse de foie gras ; the little birds which followed — quail , ortolan or snipe — were again presented with truffles ; asparagus , in and out of season , were always accompanied by hollandaise sauce ; and the bombe glacée , indispensable , it seems , to a good dinner , was the signal for all the display of which the confectionery chef was capable . |
| 29 | THE trustees of Peterhead harbour were yesterday threatened with court action after accusations that the board was attempting to block foreign fish imports into the port by raising some charges by 600 per cent . |
| 30 | between older industrial areas that were once based on manufacturing industry ( such as the North West , the North , the West Midlands ) and those areas with a high concentration of newer services and high-technology employment ( such as the South East , East Anglia ) ; |