Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 2 | The comparability of the CVs was confirmed by two consultants who were unaware of the purpose of the research and were asked to rate the CVs after the names had been removed . |
| 3 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 4 | However , after being refused passage by two ferry companies , they were forced to admit their load was not radioactive and were made to remove the stickers and signs before they could sail . |
| 5 | They listened to an impassioned sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Tyre and were moved to take the cross themselves . |
| 6 | According to one , Sotheby 's had foreclosed and were seeking to sell the painting themselves in Switzerland at a price around $35m , a substantial reduction on the auction price — a private sale being preferred to the public ignominy of auction . |
| 7 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 8 | These succeeded the foundation of the NATO alliance in Europe and were intended to constrain the influence of Soviet and Chinese communism . |
| 9 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 10 | They were in demand to play fantastic or comic roles such as satyrs or jesters and were used to relieve the solemnity of late eighteenthand ninteenth-century ballets , e.g. the many jesters found in Petipa and Soviet ballets and Puck in Ashton 's The Dream . |
| 11 | some of the pegs can not be clipped and were used to equip the route . |
| 12 | The talks addressed trade , transit and security matters and were designed to pave the way for a forthcoming visit by Indian Foreign Minister I. K. Gujral . |
| 13 | However , the most important sources available to later northern writers were the poems attributed to the professional skalds who visited princely courts and were paid to celebrate the achievements of patrons like Cnut , King Olaf Haraldsson of Norway ( St Olaf ) and Earl Eric of Lade . |
| 14 | Several boats had followed and were waiting to transport the tourists back to a civilisation that seemed so very far away from the respite of these fascinating caves . |
| 15 | Newborn mice from transgenic line 6 were examined for HNF-L expression by S1 nuclease protection assay and were shown to express the transgene in brain ( figure 5 ) . |
| 16 | It was not allowed to stand , merely to percolate through the roots , and channels-were dug to conduct the water away into another meadow or back into the stream or river . |
| 17 | In order to give meaning to this sentence one would have to imagine a situation such as the following : someone was sorting pins of different sizes on a table ; without him seeing it , the smallest of these pins fell off the table and was heard to hit the floor by those present in the room . |
| 18 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 19 | She 'd had no lunch and was beginning to feel the effects of not eating for so long . |
| 20 | Mr Langdon , of Park Avenue , Redcar , was working for subcontractor Tees Marine on an oil rig module , and was seen to collect the material , but never returned . |
| 21 | Winston Churchill was proud of the British empire and was determined to reverse the harm done by the grossly humiliating surrender at Singapore in February 1942 ; he was not willing to accept Roosevelt 's advice on the treatment of India or Hong Kong . |
| 22 | He wanted to confront Gaveston , and was determined to question the Prince on why he knew about Lady Eleanor 's death long before any messenger arrived from Godstowe . |
| 23 | Gould had seen one of these bowers in the Sydney Museum , which had been presented by his brother-in-law Charles Coxen , and was determined to observe the construction in use in its place of origin : |
| 24 | A high-school student found pieces of the mural in a container for construction debris , contacted the federal government and was instructed to take the work to a specialised restorer , Hiram Hoelzer . |
| 25 | At the time of the evaluation , he had numerous other teaching duties but taught five hours of library/study skills per week and was observed to visit the library on numerous occasions throughout the day . |
| 26 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 27 | The next phase involved giving the subject a surprise memory test in which s/he was given a list of 80 words — ; the original plus 40 distractors of a similar type — ; and was asked to tick the boxes corresponding to the words which s/he recognised as those presented in the tachistoscope . |
| 28 | BELLE ROBERTSON , one of the most famous British lady golfers since the war , seven times a Curtis Cup player and twice the non-playing captain of the international team , was the leading invited amateur at the prestigious Formby Ladies am-am tournament and was asked to present the prizes . |
| 29 | At the time , she was working for Stoy Hayward as a senior audit manager and was aiming to become the firm 's first woman partner — an ambition she had harboured since the day she joined the firm as a trainee accountant in 1982 . |
| 30 | Kingsley Centre also had the Post Office run by Maureen Florence and was looking to extend the shop which , like a planned coffee shop , would also be run by Chainreaction . |