Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the guidelines were introduced the referral rate from general practitioners for examinations covered by the guidelines was 88.4/1000 registered patients ( table I ) . |
| 2 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 3 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 4 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 5 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 7 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 8 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 9 | Under the 1980 Social Security Act this system was maintained but local offices were given the discretion to pay in full the charges made by private and voluntary residential homes . |
| 10 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 11 | Since the last World War , soldiering , as a profession , had lost its romantic appeal , but in Vietnam the journalists were given the chance of acting out fantasies about themselves , war , love and death . |
| 12 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 13 | Behind him there was a crescendo of applause , and before it could stop the guards were ushering the members of that sinister audience to their rooms . |
| 14 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 16 | Battlefields were called the Lands of Badb , and her appearance was anxiously sought to determine omens . |
| 17 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 18 | The RF Defence and Foreign Ministries were to negotiate the status of troops on Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states ' territories not forming part of those states ' armed forces or of the CIS strategic forces . |
| 19 | My own dismay at the way those kids were savaging the flora of Stonethwaite is a good example . |
| 20 | Visits to sports grounds in London and Birmingham had made me realize just how many second generation black kids were following the likes of Hope and Cunningham and channelling their efforts into sport . |
| 21 | So I would go down there and that 's where I got hip to Van Halen , because all the kids were playing the stupid Eruption solo every day . |
| 22 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 23 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 24 | While councils were defining the central doctrines of the faith , the Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries were bringing the conceptual equipment of antique thought and the rhetorical techniques of classical literature to its exposition and interpretation . |
| 25 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 26 | No typewriters were as yet in use , and the young recruits were taught the " diplomatic " style of handwriting , designed for maximum legibility . |
| 27 | At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point . |
| 28 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 29 | As the rain beat a dull rhythm on Milan 's sludge-coloured buildings this spring , Italian designers were proclaiming the return of brilliant colour behind the facades of the word 's most industrial fashion capital . |
| 30 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |