Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noise level was about average for an electric machine , certainly quieter than petrol-driven models . |
| 2 | Cholesterol values were in the lower part of the normal range for the 114 cancer patients in the appropriate sex and age matched groups . |
| 3 | Letters not specifically addressed to individuals or departments should also pass through this unit , and could be logged , if response monitoring were to be extended from the current obligation we have to log ‘ environmental ’ enquiries ( which we should also talk about ) . |
| 4 | Leaving aside discussion of case loads and the closure of cases ( to be covered below ) the development officers found this referral rate entirely manageable except towards the end of the referral year when case loads were at their peak and referrals were also high ; for example , the development officer in Newham remarked in January l985 ‘ I feel a bit shell-shocked this month with ail the new referrals together with all my problem cases ’ . |
| 5 | The budget deficit was to be cut to 60,000 million roubles by reducing central state expenditure on investment ( notably in heavy industry ) , the military and administration . |
| 6 | The budget deficit was to be restricted to 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , compared with 3 per cent in 1989 . |
| 7 | The Russian budget deficit was in danger of being inflated by measures forced on the government in order to maintain levels of social protection , and by lower tax revenues caused by non-payment . |
| 8 | Serum creatinine , amylase , serum asparate transaminase , and serum alanine transaminase were within the normal range . |
| 9 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
| 10 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
| 11 | The discharged cartridge cases were in the roadway and the gutter , close to the back wheel of the taxi . |
| 12 | If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values . |
| 13 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2% to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5% to £30.9bn . |
| 14 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2pc to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5pc to £30.9bn . |
| 15 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 16 | To find out that she was a drug user was like finding out your twin was a murderer . |
| 17 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 18 | Their conclusion was that despite the large number of variables considered by the studies , the traditional variables of word difficulty and sentence difficulty were by far the most important . |
| 19 | The German submarine offensive was at its height ; Italy was unable to make progress against Austria ; and Russia , on the point of collapse , would shortly unilaterally sue for peace . |
| 20 | Attention was focused particularly on France , where state aid to the Thomson and Bull electronics groups was under examination [ see pp. 38156 ; 38472 ] . |
| 21 | But it was in Edinburgh where boardroom manoeuvring was at its most intriguing . |
| 22 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
| 23 | Sharon 's other sister Lisa was in court this morning when Lee Staines , who 's eighteen , appeared before Milton Keynes magistrates charged with causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 24 | His comment — ‘ I skied a great run — almost perfect ’ — was not exactly vintage Billy Johnson but the Swiss fans ecstatically tolling their cow bells were beyond caring . |
| 25 | As Diana 's life was taking a new direction , her sister Sarah was in crisis . |
| 26 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |
| 27 | Last year branch income was on target at seven point eight million pounds , a massive increase on the plateau of five to five and half million pounds we were on before Skip Lunch . |
| 28 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 29 | Levi , whose support base was within the large Sephardi community , had suffered a humiliating defeat in internal Likud elections held in early March , and accused the Prime Minister and Likud leader , Itzhak Shamir , of promoting ethnic discrimination against his community . |
| 30 | Arsenal 's poor performances in January 1933 sparked off a minor panic among supporters , and Chapman was even called upon to deny the widespread rumour that the new West Stand was to be dismantled and re-erected at Tottenham , the ultimate ignominy . |