Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 2 | Such personalities were seen as objectifying within the personality a particular sort of social and political ideology , which was the product of determinable social processes . |
| 3 | The first 156 items on a frequency ranked list were selected as input to the concordance program . |
| 4 | Five normal healthy men were selected as controls for the study . |
| 5 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 6 | Both of these staining reagents were used as directed by the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 7 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |
| 8 | There was very definitely evidence of a zone in transition and these were marked as limits on the map , by observation of where the CBD finished and where there was a mixture of houses , shops and offices before the area became wholly residential . |
| 9 | Hyperamylasaemia and hyperlipasaemia were defined as increases above the upper limits of normal , which were 52 IU/l and 200 IU/l respectively , before January 11 , 1989 , and 10 IU/l and 208 IU/l , respectively , after January 11 , 1989 . |
| 10 | In their role as wives and lovers , then , women , for Kant , were viewed as means to the satisfaction of the man 's needs and wants . |
| 11 | Trunk fragments with attached limbs ( +AER and -AER ) were cultured as described in the legend to Fig. 1 for 48h in serum-free medium supplemented as stated ( resupplemented after 24h ) . |
| 12 | Murine EGF ( Collaborative Biomedical Products ) and bovine insulin ( Boehringer-Mannheim ) were resuspended as specified by the manufacturers . |
| 13 | Circulars were issued to local authorities ; arrangements were made for the billeting of evacuees ( involving detailed surveys of available accommodation ) ; those citizens most at risk ( principally children , mothers with pre-school children , the elderly , the blind , the disabled ) were identified as belonging to the ‘ priority classes ’ ; and , most important of all , the country was divided into evacuation areas ( containing 11 million people , from which 3 million in the priority classes would be removed ) , reception areas ( 16 million ) which would host the evacuees , and neutral areas ( 13 million ) . |
| 14 | The data from cosmid , P1 and YAC libraries were processed in parallel databases which were combined when required by the analysis programs . |
| 15 | These requirements were specified as follows for the design of ‘ new ’ systems . |
| 16 | Biotinylated anti-mouse immunoglobulins , streptavidin biotinylated peroxidase complex , DAB reaction , and the final counterstaining were conducted as described for the BrdU protocol . |
| 17 | By the early nineteenth century , the term ‘ Boroughmonger ’ , at any rate in Scotland , had come to mean anyone who was anti-reform , and indeed the whole Tory party at the time were branded as Boroughmongers by the radical reformers . |
| 18 | I was convinced that if the Democrats were perceived as stalling in the midst of a national economic crisis , there would be hell to pay in the midterm elections . ’ |
| 19 | The gels were loaded as described for the wild-type endonuclease ( figure 3 ) . |
| 20 | In particular the hedge on the Trough Road near the Cut and the section of Gubberford Lane on the West side near Gubberford Bridge were mentioned as encroaching onto the carriageway and in need of cutting back . |
| 21 | In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented . |
| 22 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 23 | But ‘ there was no cover up , ’ the Director of Water and Sewage was reported as saying in the Sunday Times . |
| 24 | In the Financial Times of March 28 Bush 's spokesman , Marlin Fitzwater , was reported as saying in the week following the talks that the President was concerned about " the possible collapse " of the Uruguay Round . |
| 25 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 26 | The SOC , without actually rejecting the plan , gave the least enthusiastic response , with strong reservations about disarmament and about the SNC assuming direct control of key ministries , which was seen as amounting to the dissolution of the SOC government . |
| 27 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 28 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 29 | Busek , who was Minister of Science and Research in Vranitzky 's government and was seen as coming from the ÖVP 's progressive wing , won 325 votes against 252 for Bernhard Görg , an economist . |
| 30 | The assassination in March 1991 of the hardline security chief , Minister of State for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne [ see p. 38103 ] , although denied by the LTTE , was seen as linked with the May 21 killing in India of Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] . |