Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fans were saddened to see the great man so affected by Parkinson 's disease . |
| 2 | Steps were taken to improve the combined breed from the very beginning of the nineteenth century , using the Bakewell and Colling methods , but the Scottish stock 's inherent early maturity and marbled meat needed no improvement . |
| 3 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 4 | Importers were urged to recall the worst brands . |
| 5 | Mrs Helen Ashton , college librarian , said hitech work stations and computers were set to replace the ageing desks , and floppy disc programmes would be used in conjunction with many study books . |
| 6 | Four or five pulls were needed to start the new machine when the fuel lines were completely dry . |
| 7 | The imperial treasury had been seriously reduced by the war and substantial funds were needed to fill the depleted ranks in the army as rapidly as possible . |
| 8 | Five indicators were utilised to identify the vulnerable sectors — the level of non-tariff barriers ; the spread of real productivity and pre-tax prices across the Community ; the proportion of member states ' demand met by Community imports ; and the proportion of a sector 's turnover accounted for by small businesses . |
| 9 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 10 | The authors were asked to review the current state of the art in their fields with particular reference to the likely requirements of the future policy issues agenda in terms of the demands that they make on geographic information management . |
| 11 | In 1912 the Corporation itself had purchased 30,000 coloured postcards of a circular tour car on a leafy Whitegate Drive ( see p. 61 ) , where the cars were posed facing the wrong direction to catch the sun ( below ) . |
| 12 | These methods were developed to aid the physical mapping of the fission yeast S.pombe ( 1 , 10 ) but are applicable to other hybridisation data . |
| 13 | These two methods were used to calculate the relative bidirectional reflectance of ten contrasting surfaces . |
| 14 | Counter-balance weights were used to reduce the necessary lifting force , but leaving sufficient unbalance for the gates to be shut by gravity . |
| 15 | In their recall task the subjects were asked to watch the silent film , and then a deaf or hearing person was introduced who had not seen the film . |
| 16 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 17 | In one study subjects were required to telephone the local weather information service on awakening , and to record a few details of the weather forecast on the top of their diary sheet before writing down their accounts of their dreams . |
| 18 | Balloon catheters were used to dilate the intrahepatic parenchymal fistulous tracts but metallic stents were not available and long term patency was not maintained . |
| 19 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 20 | In 1536 all clergy were required to instruct the young and in 1538 priests had to expound the English Bible . |
| 21 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 22 | His brother Donald had already opened up the route to South Africa with his famous Castle Line and occasionally vessels were transferred to supplement the respective fleets . |
| 23 | It was decided that there was no point in returning to Hoddom , so messengers were sent to acquaint the main Scots army of the position and to bring them on here to Annan in the morning . |
| 24 | Fibreglass mock-ups were built to provide the large numbers of aircraft which lined the numerous military bases across Pearl Harbor . |
| 25 | This body was renamed the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) in 1961 , and its membership and functions were extended to promote the global leadership of the capitalist ‘ Western ’ democracies . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the evidence showed that the defendants were determined to bring the contractual relationship to an end if they could , regardless of whether it was done in breach or not . |
| 27 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 28 | Friends of the Earth rainforest campaigner , Tony Juniper , said that the northern countries were refusing to address the main issue : " That forest destruction is caused by poverty and debt … |
| 29 | A panel of monoclonal antibodies were used to characterise the gastric lymphoma in all 50 patients who had undergone surgery . |
| 30 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |