Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 2 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 3 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 4 | ‘ Where are the four Marine Commandos who were killed this evening ? ’ |
| 5 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 6 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 7 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 8 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 9 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 10 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 11 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 12 | ‘ In the early days we were buying more paperback rights from other hardback publishers , because even five years ago there were more hardback publishers around that you could buy from . |
| 13 | ‘ The poems we was reading last year , Mr Randolph . ’ |
| 14 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 15 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 16 | The figures we were given this morning indicate that in within the Greater York area , the increase would be from sixteen point three to twenty point six . |
| 17 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 18 | It would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 19 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 20 | Marion has sent out questionnaires to some of the teachers who have used the site-based school packs which were introduced last year . |
| 21 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 22 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 23 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 24 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 25 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |
| 26 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 27 | These dynamic people , including Mary Kelly , Frances Mackenzie , L. du Garde Peach , Leo Baker , Robert Newton and Alfred Willett-Whittacker were not merely enthusiastic practitioners , they were far-sighted educators who were giving high status to amateur theatre . |
| 28 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 29 | In order to provide effective compiler generate code from high level languages it was decided that VAX should have a very regular and consistent treatment of operators , avoid instructions unlikely to be generated by a compiler , include several forms of common operators , and replace common instruction sequences with single instructions . |
| 30 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |