Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1945 the boundaries of Mountbatten 's South East Asia Command were extended to include the Netherlands East Indies and the southern part of Indochina as well as the original Burma , Siam , Malaya , Singapore , and Sumatra . |
| 2 | In 1987 members of the 308 Club Sub Aqua Association were trying to locate the wreck of the Caducius , a composite sailing barque , which was iron framed , with timber decking and hull , and sheathed in brass or copper to prevent worm damage . |
| 3 | The behaviour of laminin and clinical and laboratory data in 83 patients with cirrhosis were studied to find the factors associated with increases in this glycoprotein . |
| 4 | The futures price changes used in this study were argued to precede the spot price changes by roughly one minute , although this has been disputed ( Gordon , Moriarty and Tosini , 1987 , and Herbst and Maberly , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The West Midlands Force were instructed to investigate the South Yorkshire Police , ironically , at a time when their own Serious Crimes Squad was the subject of an investigation . |
| 6 | The college were going to try the issue before a pr private almost secret little disciplinary committee containing academics and students . |
| 7 | The Prelude was meant to illustrate the growth of his own mind , so as to show his fitness for such a project . |
| 8 | In treatment by similars the remedy was used to stimulate the body 's own healing powers ( the vis medicatrix naturae or healing force of nature ) thus strengthening the body , the soil . |
| 9 | Hence the Springfield Air Racing Association was formed to finance the building of the Model Z ‘ Super Sportster ’ . |
| 10 | And the new Italian thinking was beginning to affect the sects themselves . |
| 11 | Meanwhile American aid was needed to ease the dollar famine , and to sustain Britain 's commitment to multilateral trade . |
| 12 | The above experiment was extended to determine the sequence of both subunits essential for this interaction as described in the Materials and Methods . |
| 13 | The President was requested to take the chain to a jeweller when it was convenient to do so . |
| 14 | Their ineffective-looking trainer was trying to stop the owners from straightening the number cloth , tidying the forelock over the headband , tweaking at the saddle and shoving their big rosettes with every ill-judged movement near the horse 's affronted nostrils . |
| 15 | Yesterday David McGibbon , Grampian Holding 's group finance director , said that the closure was designed to make the company more efficient in the face of European competition . |
| 16 | Past experience of losses of the same nature as a current loss was found to reduce the person 's capacity to deal with the current loss . |
| 17 | We dismounted , One soldier was ordered to guard the horses whilst another , a lean whippet of a man with leathery skin and sea-blue eyes , was beckoned over by Mandeville . |
| 18 | Racking was used to store the goods both on the warehouse floor and on the platform and was bolted to supports for safety . |
| 19 | Homes Assured , went bust owing £10 million , and is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office ; a Friends Provident agent was caught using the FP logo on documents offering unsecured commercial loans , and is being investigated by fraud squad detectives ; and last December a Guardian Royal Exchange agent , Charmworth Properties , collapsed . |
| 20 | Her mind was struggling to verbalise the emotions running riot inside her , but before she could complete the sentence she felt his lips on hers , hard and demanding . |
| 21 | Thus it transpired , for the only time in the BBC 's history , that the Design Department was asked to undertake the responsibility and the budgets for all visual effects , special props , models , etc. , needed for the television series . |
| 22 | The Department was intended to promote the study of industrial design for textiles , pottery , etc. , and Cole campaigned against over-elaborate and inappropriate representational decoration on such things . |
| 23 | A single storey building housing the C.D.T. Department was redesigned to facilitate the need for additional classrooms , by means of demolition and construction of new subdivision walls to create the necessary spaces . |
| 24 | Creggan was beginning to read the windscape around him and to plan a route by it . |
| 25 | In this book she shows how in the years of the establishment of the Christian Church , holiness came to be defined by the exclusion of the female , and a concept of purity which had its roots in the Old Testament was used to establish the priesthood as a wholly male structure . |
| 26 | Canon Law was most strict on this : a priest was bound to hear the confession of any man who believed he was in danger of death . |
| 27 | Moorcroft was employed to manage the East India Company 's stud in Essex , and to select breeding stock for their stud in Bengal . |
| 28 | No fraud was used to obtain the entry on the charges register of the building society 's legal charge . |
| 29 | This volume was reissued in 1706 , the same year that The Female Advocate was reprinted bearing the date 1707 . |
| 30 | Launched under the slogan of " One Nation " , the programme was designed to counter the success of the so-called " Fightback Package " which the right-wing Liberal-National Party opposition coalition had unveiled in December 1991 [ see p. 38675 ] as an economic blueprint to pull Australia out of recession . |