Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 2 | A JUDGE 'S refusal to let undercover police officers give evidence behind a screen at the trial of 19 Manchester United fans was upheld in the High Court yesterday . |
| 3 | One study of Parkinson 's disease , an incurable nervous condition , showed that the use of garden pesticides was associated with a higher incidence of the disease . |
| 4 | They were heavily made up , with painted cheeks and scarlet lipstick ; each of their noses was pierced with a single diamond stud . |
| 5 | The extensive studies on removal and transplantation of the ovaries by Knauer in Vienna ( see Chapter 5 ) appeared in 1900 and the more general concept of hormones or blood-borne chemical messengers was elaborated for the first time by Starling in his Croonian lectures a decade after Beatson 's observations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 7 | A law giving the government the power to lift bans on direct links with China and to exchange representative offices was adopted by the Legislative Yuan , or parliament , on July 16 after almost two years of debate . |
| 8 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 9 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 10 | The new " meaning " , therefore , that was preached by the missionaries was embodied in a modern subject : English Language , Literature , and History . |
| 11 | Centralization of authority within the parties was seen as the major obstacle to the implementation of their demands . |
| 12 | Consternation in the more excitable sections of the older parties was mirrored by a revealing mixture of awe , incredulity and apprehension in the Labour movement . |
| 13 | The state of the political parties was reflected in the civil war . |
| 14 | The independence of national Parties was enshrined as an organizational principle . |
| 15 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 16 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 17 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
| 18 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 19 | The acute rise in blood glucose concentrations was induced by an intravenous bolus injection of a glucose 20% solution 45 minutes before the start of CCK-33 infusion . |
| 20 | A climax of sorts was reached with the British economic crisis of 1949 . |
| 21 | Palmer 's opening move was to oppose the introduction of a General Tax Ordinance for Nigeria , and , with the support of the Residents , to propose a return to the 1906 Native Revenue Ordinance , which stated that the tax paid in the Northern Provinces was levied by the native authorities with the approval but not at the direction of the governor . |
| 22 | Her measuring glance moved to the corner of his mouth , where the line of his lips was prolonged in a short red scar , and then to his cheek-bone , which bore a suggestive blue stain . |
| 23 | His eyes were unreadable but a small pulse at the edge of his lips was preparing for a dismissive smile . |
| 24 | In 1989 this was seen in Liverpool where the pain of the deaths of ninety-five football supporters was transformed into a collective sense of mutual caring and support . |
| 25 | Agreement in July 1906 , this batch of ten cars was transferred to the new South Metropolitan Company , who over the years carried out a number of modifications on them . |
| 26 | More recently , a decrease in pentagastrin stimulated acid output in older subjects was associated with an increasing incidence and severity of atrophic changes to the body mucosa with advancing age . |
| 27 | A general collocation dictionary of some 12,475 entries was produced from the 5 million-word general corpus , and separate domain dictionaries created for each of the five superfields . |
| 28 | IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament . |
| 29 | Rug-making in Persia took a quantum leap under the patronage of Shah Tamasp ( 1524–76 ) and Shah Abbas I ( 1588–1629 ) ; the previous tradition of rather simple geometric designs was superseded by a new-found passion for more naturalistic , usually floral forms in flowing and intricate profusion . |
| 30 | A statistically significant difference between the two methods was found in the total number of cells per crypt column , the crypts appearing longer in the PCNA assay ( Table I ) . |