Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight further political parties were formally legalized on Feb. 5 and other parties were encouraged to apply for registration . |
| 2 | Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’ |
| 3 | Subjects were instructed to breathe in synchrony to the imaging frequency of 20 frames per min . |
| 4 | Two hundred drinkers were forced to run for cover but she was unable to get clear and caught the full force of the blast . |
| 5 | Winter barley is ripening rapidly on the heavy lands of North Humberside , and combines were expected to move from mid-week onwards , according to barometer farmer John Fenton , who manages Yokefleet Farms , Blacktoft . |
| 6 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 7 | Odds ratios were calculated and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounding by age at diagnosis and calendar period . |
| 8 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 9 | Quaker businessmen were meant to act with integrity and caution . |
| 10 | By the 1930s , some part at least of the more advanced views of the previous two decades was beginning to percolate into society as a whole . |
| 11 | Local observers were encouraged to report on distribution and migration patterns , thus paving the way for an interest in environmental concerns . |
| 12 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 13 | Yet even as an ardent Darwinian , keen to prove by minute observation how seeds were adapted to travel on wind , water or in the maws of animals , he continues to write like an angel and to soar like a philosopher . |
| 14 | But workers were encouraged to stay on bench after hours , at weekends and bank holidays as part of the war effort . |
| 15 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 16 | That particular party broke up at five , and two guests were persuaded to go to bed rather than drive all the way back to West Meath . |
| 17 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
| 18 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah ! ’ said Ari , brightening , as if things were beginning to fall into place in her mind . |
| 20 | The families were told to attend at half-hour intervals from ten o'clock onwards . |
| 21 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 22 | Anxiety to hear and record last words was still strong at a time when anaesthetics were beginning to come into use , making it possible to reduce suffering , though often at the cost of rendering the dying person comatose and inarticulate . |
| 23 | At least two independent witnesses were needed to agree in evidence ; if they did not agree , the trial was stopped and the accused found ‘ not guilty ’ ( Mark 14:59 ) . |
| 24 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 25 | Patients were invited to participate by letter and those who consented attended for outpatient review . |
| 26 | Occasionally teachers were allowed to fit into school hours or overtime courses some algebra , Euclid , French , Latin and Irish . |
| 27 | In the shade beneath the trees he saw that the " massacred " Annamite coolies were beginning to come to life ; they untangled themselves from one another with painful slowness and staggered to their feet . |
| 28 | Girls were encouraged to ask for help , play with dolls , take an interest in clothes and dressing up and stay close to parents and discouraged from being noisy and playing rough games . |
| 29 | Nor did such sentences mean that the wrongdoers were allowed to rot in peace . |
| 30 | Whereas the prisoners were beginning to retreat into apathy by the second day , many of the guards quickly showed that they enjoyed the power they had , and began to abuse it . |