Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the legs were jointed I turned the leg and stretcher assembly upside down on to the bottom of the seat and from this I could mark the centres to be drilled and set the bevels to repeat the process . |
| 2 | The entry for the case was located in the birth register and the first preceding and the first succeeding entries were selected who matched the case with respect to sex , date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district of birth registration , and family health services authority of the child 's first general practitioner . |
| 3 | But consider one aspect : fifteen design variables were identified which affected the behaviour of residents , especially children and users of blocks of flats . |
| 4 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 5 | Films were made which attacked the small screen . |
| 6 | In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics . |
| 7 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |
| 8 | When the committee inspected the work in July 1890 some further changes were made which increased the cost to £657 in addition to the cost of the site . |
| 9 | But although these were indeed dog days for British film production , film producers were emerging who understood the need for modern styles of production , bigger budgets and more ambitious showmanship . |
| 10 | And when the first visors were introduced they made the heavy hats flop down over the troops ' faces . |
| 11 | With the expansion of trade and the growth of powerful merchant classes , economic forces were unleashed which eroded the older social structure and undermined the established order and authorities . |
| 12 | So quite early on some very crucial decisions were made which tilted the balance very much towards the national government . |
| 13 | In addition 25 other trade-related agreements were ratified which included the mutual reduction of tariffs and export duties on 350 manufactured goods ; the freeing of restrictions on nearly all primary agricultural produce and the equalizing of tariffs of 170 food items ; and a bilateral annual trade of 10,000 vehicles . |
| 14 | Frequently , strategies were adopted which camouflaged the intractability of this particular problem . |
| 15 | Other instruments were invented which recorded the actions of the heart and the flow in the vessels , and it became possible to investigate how the whole system was regulated throughout all the different activities of life . |
| 16 | From the 1820s huge steam engines were built which did the work much more effectively . |
| 17 | Through the development of this research programme , a fuller list of tasks was defined which explained the social care planning process in context . |
| 18 | It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane 's circulating libraries . |