Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The problem of social role One particular difficulty which is liable to beset participant observation studies was touched on in the previous paragraph ; it concerns the social role allocated to the fieldworker as a consequence of his or her age , sex , ethnicity or other socially significant attributes . |
| 32 | As the full impact of these figures was borne in on the DES , it reacted by successively cutting back teacher-training places in the colleges of education . |
| 33 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 34 | Hereford were further rocked in the 52nd minute when player-coach Greg Downs was sent off for a professional foul on striker Mickey Spencer . |
| 35 | A little white cutter with red sails was coming in towards the moored boats . |
| 36 | Across the street one of his neighbours was leaning out of a bedroom window , calling for her cat . |
| 37 | The chronology of geomagnetic reversals was extended back into the Mesozoic and this together with the dating of ocean floor sediments enabled the age of large areas of oceanic crust to be determined . |
| 38 | Joseph 's lodge was at the north of the camp , and one of his wives was cut down by a bullet while carrying her daughter to safety . |
| 39 | The roll of eleven names was called out by the coroner 's officer . |
| 40 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 41 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 42 | If only the English attempt to legislate against slow over rates was backed up with a different small-print . |
| 43 | Even the inheritance of acquired characters was taken up as the centrepiece for a self-consciously anti-Darwinian movement known as ‘ neo-Lamarckism ’ . |
| 44 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 45 | The victory on paid holidays was achieved out of a mixture of motives , an amalgam of control and progressive reform . |
| 46 | The internal opposition to Dr Banda 's rule has become more brazen since a critical pastoral letter signed by Malawi 's seven Catholic bishops was read out in every Catholic church last month . |
| 47 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 48 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 49 | Perhaps the number of such advisers was pulled out of a hat . |
| 50 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 51 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 52 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 53 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 54 | A series of tests was carried out among the prostitutes who came voluntarily to venereal-disease clinics in late 1989 . |
| 55 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 56 | The top prices , however , were paid for two seven-month-old daughters of Rothrock Tradition Leadman , from Canadian consignors Cormdale Farms in Ontario — Allstar Leadman Marcie , out of A Valianat Mars SWD Marcie , with a projected CGI of 1071 points was snapped up by a German buyer for 7500gns , and Genesis Leadman Dora , out of Nowerland Chief Doris , with a projected CGI of 1131 points , was sold to Eire . |
| 57 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |
| 58 | At first he treated Lennie as a joke , ordering him around ; as he says , ‘ … a bunch of guys was standing around on the Sacramento River . |
| 59 | Flowers was injured out of the England Game which will be a help too . |
| 60 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |