Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were approached on this deal we used it to tie in with the release of one of our hostages held in Lebanon . ’ |
| 2 | As rather over 5,000 gliders were built in this country it was not possible for ‘ experts ’ to inspect them all continually so Mark Pryor issued instructions that he should be informed if they stank . |
| 3 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 4 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 5 | Since a large number of locations were needed for this study it was decided to use locations which none of the subjects were likely to know rather than stimuli filmed in the Cambridge area which would differ in the degree of previous familiarity subjects had with them . |
| 6 | We were told by one dealer we might have to write to Italy to get this particular part . |
| 7 | If legislation were introduced at this point it is possible that it would fall foul of the decision by the European Court of Justice and thus be impracticable and a waste of public funds . |
| 8 | In a simple case , we might have the following key set : These thirty-four records need only 34 storage positions , but if they were stored in self-indexing form they would take up 359 storage positions , and there would be five gaps of 91 , 1 , 1 , 94 and 138 positions respectively . |
| 9 | Exactly how many rival organisations were established during this period we do not know . |
| 10 | Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault . |
| 11 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 12 | A third was made with such force it went through her stomach and up to her heart . |
| 13 | To find out whether the presence of toxoplasma-specific antibodies was related to clinical status we classified the patients in three groups ( table ) . |
| 14 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 15 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 16 | I mean if your child was born with one arm you 'll still fucking blame yourself for it would n't you at the end of the day . |
| 17 | my Lord if , if if it was , if that was based upon illegal business we would say it was invalid , if it was based at the end of the day upon business that we would of erm permitted to have been written then we would n't have no our defence to it |
| 18 | It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales . |
| 19 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 20 | Such a tactic of isolating one group of workers from the control of technology was tried by another company I visited , which made goods from rubber moulds . |
| 21 | Mr refers to European law and environmental statements that was passed into British legislation we have fully complied with that . |
| 22 | The contrast between the periodic behaviour of Fig. 24.1 and the chaotic of Figs. 24.2 , 24.3 was obtained by increasing P. It should not , however , be inferred that this is a simple trend . |
| 23 | The incident remained in his mind and was reinforced by another experience he had shortly afterwards . |
| 24 | And if Mobuto was killed on American soil it would prove a severe embarrassment not only to us but to the President as well . |
| 25 | If we knew why she was killed in that way we would be closer to the truth . ’ |