Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three bodies provided support during this period for pioneering WEA activity over relatively short periods , usually for three years , although some were renewed to sustain encouraging developments . |
| 2 | The scale of expenditure on all aspects of local government , and the greatly increased proportion of total public expenditure which it represented , meant that , when the crisis came , some were led to blame local authorities , and in the cuts that followed inner cities inevitably suffered most acutely . |
| 3 | This was done using British Telecommunications Plc 's Phonebase system to access the directory enquiries database . |
| 4 | This was done to provide sufficient scope for the scheme to assess a wide variety of projects , ranging from exploratory and practical to textbook work , encouraged in part by the large element of self study or group work which was a prominent feature of the course . |
| 5 | This was intended to help elderly people no longer fully capable , but still with sufficient understanding to create the power . |
| 6 | Cambridge ink-jet printer maker Domino Printing Sciences Plc told the annual meeting yesterday that despite the strong finish to 1992 , first quarter trading has been below expectations and this was bound to affect interim results : in particular , sales in the US were unexpectedly slow during the first three months coinciding with the change of administration , it said . |
| 7 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 8 | Infectious ecotropic Bcl-2/PURO virus was prepared from culture supernatants of E cells , transfected with the Bcl-2/PURO vector and this was used to infect Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells . |
| 9 | In Quebec , this was adapted to cover late secondary , junior college , and university work . |
| 10 | These were used to draw young nationalists into the work of the Party . |
| 11 | These were designed to ensure free competition within the EC , with the European Commission being charged with the responsibility for applying the legislation . |
| 12 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 13 | Many were sold to raise further funds to furnish the new institute . |
| 14 | Many were forced to take part-time jobs or handouts from parents to make ends meet . |
| 15 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 16 | A global score covering the overall totals of the scores of all the above assessments was constructed : in the absence of neutrophils , patients scoring four or less were considered normal ; those scoring five or more were considered to have chronic duodenitis , in the absence of neutrophils . |
| 17 | The progressive human resource management policies of the former were seen to equip these organisations with a key competitive resource : a well-trained work-force committed to the aims of the enterprise . |
| 18 | The former was said to bring industrial conflict , the latter harmony . |
| 19 | Each was ordered to do 120 hours ' community service and pay £850 costs . |