Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All cell lines were found to have the same basal concentration of cAMP . |
| 2 | From Yugoslavia Tito 's regular and partisan troops were poised to enter the same southern part of Austria as the British . |
| 3 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 4 | Where possible , data items were cross checked against one another and the establishments were asked to clarify the few inconsistencies that arose . |
| 5 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | The best performance results were obtained using the same constrained finite state grammar as HARPY with an average branching ratio of 10 . |
| 7 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 8 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |