Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A superficial cancer of the bladder was detected during transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate and a caecal cancer was found on barium enema examination in a patient with iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 2 | For instance access to the gall bladder was lost in one patient , a well described problem and the absence of a safety guide wire meant that greater care with the track had to be exercised . |
| 3 | It is suggestive , for example , that in Copernicus 's native Poland , a sun-centered cosmology was taught in Protestant schools many years before it was taught to Catholics . |
| 4 | It had also been studied in America , with the result that the cylindrical wheel was recommended for high speed work . |
| 5 | After that , a & F catheter was introduced in the hepatic vein and a preshaped liver biopsy needle ( Ignenor Medical , Paris , France ) was slipped into the catheter and the transjugular liver biopsy was obtained in each patient using the standard technique . |
| 6 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 7 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 8 | After fixation , each biopsy was divided into two halves . |
| 9 | In total , 34 biopsy specimens were obtained from controls and 10 from familial adenomatous polyposis patients , and each biopsy was divided into several explants ( between six and 15 ) . |
| 10 | What he did not , of course , add was that he intended to exacerbate that instability by every means in his power while making certain that external isolation was added to internal dysfunction . |
| 11 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |
| 12 | The auction was launched by eleven works of recent art consigned by Raymond Learsy , eight of which found buyers . |
| 13 | According to Dexter , ‘ much time was spent on a detailed review of the Old Trafford Test and disappointment was expressed at some elements of England 's performance . |
| 14 | The British Tinnitus Association was formed on 9 July 1979 . |
| 15 | The future policy of the Association was discussed at these meetings . |
| 16 | The Automobile Association was established on 26 June 1905 , a few months after Charles Jarrott and William Letts had set up a warning system to advise motorists of police speed traps on some sections of the London to Brighton road . |
| 17 | Its membership of the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association was suspended on 16 April 1992/ |
| 18 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 19 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 20 | A strong association was found between low self-esteem and current adverse circumstances with both relating to an increased risk of developing clinical depression in the following year . |
| 21 | A modest negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and availability of attachment and social integration . |
| 22 | However , a much stronger negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and the perceived adequacy of social relationships . |
| 23 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 24 | The thinking was done at various times before — and will , no doubt , be re-done by the reader . |
| 25 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 26 | This nocturnal rhythm was bisected with sexual rhythms and the rhythms of crosstown , crosscountry , transworld movement . |
| 27 | As a family 's income rose , so the cash aid was withdrawn at different rates for different members of the sample . |
| 28 | The 6ft 5ins former Irish forward was attacked by two men wielding iron bars near Heuston railway station last night . |
| 29 | The Jewish Brigade was composed of ardent Zionists who carried their missionary zeal through the displaced persons camps of Europe . |
| 30 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |