Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home side were lacking a key bowler too , in seamer Willie Watson , whose absence with a thigh strain was to prove a chronic handicap to Crowe . |
| 2 | There were loads of light vans in the Mirror livery parked on both sides of the street and the pubs down one side were doing a roaring end-of-shift trade — or maybe pre-shift . |
| 3 | THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews . |
| 4 | The opposition were winning a lot of line-out ball at the back and were getting to our midfield . |
| 5 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 6 | South-West were dealt a blow yesterday when their England flanker Andy Robinson pulled out after falling victim to the ‘ flu epidemic . |
| 7 | The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry . |
| 8 | Kindred associations in the funeral industry were feeling the same . |
| 9 | So peaceful had the volcano been , in fact , that its fertile soils were extensively cultivated , vineyards flourished on favoured sunny slopes , and the people living on and around the volcano were enjoying the prosperity and security of the Roman empire at its height . |
| 10 | FLOOD-hit caravan parks on the North Wales coast were given a £175,000 fillip last night . |
| 11 | The Professional Footballers ' Association were offered an improved percentage of television revenue after a 3½-hour meeting in London . |
| 12 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 13 | During the procedure pulse rate , blood pressure , and oxygen saturation were recorded every minute by the research nurse . |
| 14 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 15 | The , the , the , the the er certain sections of the Communist Party of which Mao was a member and certain sections of the left wing of the Kuomintang were taking a very similar view on , on rural revolution . |
| 16 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 17 | He said that the main objectives of the programme were to achieve an annual growth rate of 3-5 per cent ; to reduce the annual rate of inflation to 3.6 per cent per annum by 1995 and to reduce the country 's external debt . |
| 18 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 19 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the antibody response to Giardia in these children and to investigate the significance of antibodies to Giardia heat shock antigen in chronic infection . |
| 20 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the dose response relationship for cholera toxin after intrajejunal administration , to develop a standardised model of intestinal secretion using an intestinal perfusion technique , and to expand our information on the action of cholera toxin on the human jejunum . |
| 21 | The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the 3849+10 kb CT mutation in Israeli CF patients and to assess the disease severity in patients with this mutation compared with that of patients who have the mutations that are known to cause severe disease . |
| 22 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 23 | At the same time as Shirley Williams ( Secretary of State for Education in the Callaghan administration which was to be defeated in the General Election of 1979 ) was conducting the ‘ Great Debate ’ , inspectors from her Department were beginning a process of evaluation of the nation 's schools . |
| 24 | Three congressional panels and the Justice Department were conducting the investigations , which opened in mid-May , and which centred on the HUD 's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Programme . |
| 25 | There were also indications that branches of physical geography were acknowledging the necessity for studies of processes in view of the way in which processes were featuring more prominently in related disciplines . |
| 26 | His face and neck were burnt a dark-scarlet colour and patches had peeled , exposing bright pink lesions underneath , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 27 | The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be . |
| 28 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 29 | It was 15′ long , and the workmen in the published photograph were raising the model as an exhibit for the enquiry convened after the disaster at Beauvais in October 1930 . |
| 30 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |