Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
| 3 | Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads . |
| 4 | In all , 32 butchers ' shops have been visited and 12 were found to have no such equipment . |
| 5 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 6 | 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 . |