Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [v-ing] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli . |
| 2 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 3 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 4 | In the second investigation , a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document . |
| 5 | The OALD was indexed using the same technique as that applied to the CED , and used as the source of definitions by the overlap program . |