Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | As a result monstrous tower blocks , not fit for human souls , were erected to replace the neat streets of individual terraced houses , vast impersonal motorways supplanted the agreeably irregular network of real roads , and as part of the dehumanization process , the Great railway stations , the local cinemas , and the corner shops , the familiar landmarks of a lifetime , were swept away . |
2 | Mixing curves are ticked to represent 20% increments , and were calculated using the following parameters . |
3 | Guilds were formed to supplement the slender resources of benefices by financing additional services and so forth ; any friendly-society function was likely to be subsidiary , only a minority providing financial assistance for needy members . |
4 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
5 | Two sections ( four aircraft ) of 807 Squadron were scrambled to join the four Fulmars of 808 Squadron on patrol , these latter aircraft intercepting sixteen S.79s of 38° Gruppo from Sardinia , but as Lt. Tillard led the attack they were themselves ‘ bounced ’ by a dozen escorting CR 42s of the 3° Gruppo C.T . |
6 | They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities . |
7 | if the Convention were deemed to supplant the Federal Rules as the governing law on discovery from a litigant , in this case it would entirely deprive plaintiffs of a major tool of discovery against [ the defendant ] . |
8 | THE LATEST rise in interest rates finally quashes the foolish delusion that Margaret Thatcher 's economic policies were designed to help the entrepreneurial classes , for they need low , stable sources of credit . |
9 | Refinements of surgical technique eventually culminated in the selective shunt procedures developed by Warren et al which were designed to decompress the gastro-oesophageal varices while preserving portal blood flow and liver function . |
10 | In bygone days composts were secrets locked in the mind of the formidable head gardeners whose magical mixes blended from leaf mould , old mortar rubble , soot , garden soil , silver sand and twice-sieved sphagnum moss were varied to suit the individual needs of every plant they grew . |
11 | Eventually a number of layers of organic Viton-B compound were applied to seal the pin-hole leaks . |
12 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
13 | His brother Donald had already opened up the route to South Africa with his famous Castle Line and occasionally vessels were transferred to supplement the respective fleets . |
14 | Fibreglass mock-ups were built to provide the large numbers of aircraft which lined the numerous military bases across Pearl Harbor . |
15 | The prefects of the overseas departments were instructed to negotiate the proposed reforms with local civil service unions and political parties . |
16 | As from February 1 , ICPI Ltd , a wholly-owned IBM Corp subsidiary , began selling its personal computers under the Ambra name again in Germany : according to Computerwoche , at the end of last year , the company 's German distributors were instructed to take the IBM-compatible boxes off the market because the Ambra tradename was protected , and the company has only now been able to regularise the situation ; ICPI reckons it will command a 5% share of the German market by the end of 1993 ; sales will now be expanded into other countries , including the Far East and Africa . |
17 | The rectangular plaques , showing battle scenes and officials in court dress , were made to decorate the wooden columns of the palace . |
18 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
19 | Furthermore , it is argued by some commentators that , if an attempt were made to trace the redistributive consequences of other types of government policy , e.g. subsidies that are part of industrial policy , then an already very fuzzy picture would become totally confused . |
20 | Soviet television crews were taken to the site , telegenic Soviet doctors were produced to discuss the likely consequences . |
21 | It is not , though , beyond the bounds of possibility they were used to control the large numbers of rats that inhabited the countryside in the Middle Ages and thereafter . |
22 | Forms of analysis somewhat similar to those above were used to estimate the net gains . |
23 | A total of 205 N 2 progeny were obtained ; a random subset of these N 2 mice were used to map the Oct-11 loci . |
24 | Brazilian diamonds were used to define the main bands , a fine Indian diamond was set at the middle , a Ceylonese sapphire appeared above the globe and over all was set a cross of pink diamonds . |
25 | They also did the fibreglass forms which were used to create the P–40 mock-ups . |
26 | This ‘ anthropological ’ approach was the root of notions of production , exchange and consumption , which were thought to apply universally and were used to explain the economic arrangements of existing societies . |
27 | The earliest and most widespread manner in which precious substances were used to influence the unseen powers behind the visible world was by means of sacrifices and votive offerings . |
28 | The imperial treasury had been seriously reduced by the war and substantial funds were needed to fill the depleted ranks in the army as rapidly as possible . |
29 | Supporters of an expanded manned space programme cited the recent example of astronauts achieving the successful deployment of the gamma ray observatory ( GRO ) in April 1991 [ see p. 38171 ] and argued that they were needed to correct the optical problems of the Hubble Space Telescope [ see pp. 37394 ; 37551 ] . |
30 | Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president . |