Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 2 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 3 | Eight practice trials ( one for each question-answer combination ) were given before the experiment proper , and the stimuli and questions for these are shown at the bottom of the second page of the aforementioned question sheet . |
| 4 | Last year 2,047 cases were heard in the Hillbrow small claims court , in Johannesburg , 90% of which were won by the workers . |
| 5 | A group of people were gathered at a mill two blocks away . |
| 6 | Stained nuclei were examined in a fluorescence cytophotometric microscope ( OSP-1 , Olympus , Tokyo ) . |
| 7 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 8 | The cartoons caused outrage when they were leaked to the press last week . |
| 9 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 10 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 11 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 12 | The results , which were reported in The Lancet medical journal yesterday , are described as ‘ very depressing ’ by the Terrence Higgins AIDS charity . |
| 13 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 14 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |
| 15 | We were walking past the church one Saturday afternoon where there was a wedding going on . |
| 16 | Freezing temperatures were forecast in the area last night which could devastate crops . |
| 17 | These cells were transfected by the CaPO 4 -DNA precipitate method [ 16 ] with 10 µg test gene plasmid , 1 µg reference gene plasmid and the indicated amount of either trans-activator plasmid or herring sperm DNA overnight . |
| 18 | Wayward Girls and Wicked Women is a collection of women 's animation from the last 13 years — many of which were included in the Channel 4 animations seasons . |
| 19 | Just 2 mallard ducks ; an adult male and female were caught in the decoy this time . |
| 20 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 21 | As more and more Grand Prix races were added to the Formula One calendar the Cup lost its international appeal and in 1976 the Cup abolished to make way for the Formula Pacific Series in New Zealand , and the Formula 5000 Series in Australia . |
| 22 | For each age group we evaluated a series of prediction models in which hypoxaemia was the dependent variable and selected predictor variables were added in a step wise manner with an inclusion rule of p <=0.05.; |
| 23 | The sections , which were taken randomly from the gastric corpus and included areas of haemorrhagical damage , were evaluated by an observer unaware of the treatment . |
| 24 | A LORRY driver was killed and six people were injured in a pile-up last night . |
| 25 | It is difficult to compare the relatively large destabilising effect observed for the octamers in this study , to the smaller effect noted when single d3CA residues were incorporated into the d(GACGATATCGTC) 2 duplex , since the T m measurements were not performed at the same pH ( 4 ) . |
| 26 | Charters bore no authentication : even the crosses and so-called " signatures " of the witnesses were written by the scribe responsible for the rest of the text . |
| 27 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 28 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 29 | After admission , the patients were transferred to the Liver Intensive Care Unit . |
| 30 | Based on the forecasts of the Labour government 's Green Paper of 1977 , 550,000 fewer houses were built during the period 1976–86 than were envisaged as being necessary in order to satisfy the anticipated need . |