Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the programs Carter proposed either were never passed or were drastically rewritten by Congress . ’ |
| 2 | One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’ |
| 3 | They had a strong sense of shared identity , had been trained together , and were strongly linked by kinship ties . |
| 4 | A total of seven mineshafts were located along the route and were either consolidated by grout injection or capped at rockhead . |
| 5 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 6 | In December 1942 an Inspectorate of Eastern Troops was set up to supervise the formation and training of the proliferating military units ; but each was subordinated to a German unit ; and although an officer 's academy was established at Mariumpol , Lithuania ( later Conflans , France ) , the units were never assembled into tactical formations , and were largely posted on occupation duties to Western and Southern Europe . |
| 7 | Trebuchets had a long range , and were generally constructed on site . |
| 8 | They had semi-circular arched heads and were generally filled with alabaster or marble sheets or , sometimes , glass . |
| 9 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 10 | These six-sided bricks , each facet displaying part of a printed map , when correctly positioned display six maps by W. and A. K. Johnston , including England , Scotland , Europe and the World , and were neatly boxed as part of the original product . |
| 11 | The burghers of Lichfield are a cultured and discerning lot , and were clearly charmed by guest speakers Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington , who could hardly have come from more different writing genres . |
| 12 | All of the Ea transgenic mouse strains contained intact copies of the transgene construct , as shown by Southern blot analysis ( data not shown , see Materials and methods ) , and were probably integrated in tandem . |
| 13 | The manufacture of faience objects was another highly specialized craft closely associated with temple worship ; many of these objects have a religious significance and were probably made for cult use . |
| 14 | They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff . |
| 15 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 16 | " And were any evicted by force ? " to which the answer was " Yes , on the south side of the parish . " |
| 17 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 18 | The Bank men , their first-class tickets ensuring a place at the front of the queue for immigration formalities , wasted no time in getting through the airport and were quickly ferried by car along the narrow road into the city . |
| 19 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |
| 20 | In addition , the Greek sculptures displayed in Rome had been removed from their intended context , and were therefore reproduced without reference to it . |
| 21 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 22 | Three day stool collection were stored at -20°C and were subsequently analysed for fat and bile acid content . |
| 23 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 24 | The electric signalling bells did not give satisfaction and were gradually replaced by cord operated bells . |
| 25 | The tanks were 80 feet long by 15 feet wide and 5 feet deep ( internal dimensions ) , and were mainly constructed of steel plates ⅜ins. thick , and angle sections riveted together . |
| 26 | Firstly , as their participants confessed , they were supposed to be balanced in composition , and were inevitably predisposed towards consensus . |
| 27 | Two other girls had been grazed and bruised , and were obviously suffering from shock . |
| 28 | The stairs went both ways , up and down and were thickly coated with dust . |
| 29 | They had a brief existence from 1649 until 1651 and were constantly attacked by government . |
| 30 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |