Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as members of the proletariat saw their struggles as ‘ personal problems ’ , or were coerced or conditioned into behaving against their class interests , they were in a state of ‘ false consciousness ’ . |
| 2 | Again , we must remember that those sermons which got into print or were noticed and attacked in newspapers were not always typical : the typical is seldom noticed . |
| 3 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 4 | Their lordships did , however , state that a different result might apply to a telex message which was not a direct communication in office hours between the acceptor and the offeror , e.g. if it was sent at night or was sent or received through telex machines operated by third persons . |
| 5 | If , for example , the arbitrator was bribed , or was drunk while considering the case , or if new evidence of great importance unexpectedly turns up , each party may ignore the decision . |
| 6 | From its inception , traditional medicine came to form an integral part of the popular health system , while in the ‘ official ’ system it was either ignored and ridiculed or was incorporated and exploited for profit . |
| 7 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 8 | The Crown Prosecution Service were informed of Buckley J. 's order and of the plaintiffs ' intention to appeal from the decision of Wright J. , and were asked whether they wished to intervene or make representations in the appeal . |
| 9 | In the present case the Crown Prosecution Service were informed of the order made by Buckley J. including paragraph 33 and were asked whether they wished to intervene in the hearing before the Court of Appeal or otherwise make representations in the appeal . |
| 10 | Parents who requested places on a Kindertransport were warned that orthodox foster homes were not on offer and were asked if they objected to Christian hospitality . |
| 11 | All compounds are 2 , 3- cis racemates , and were synthesized as described . |
| 12 | Samples were recovered with 100 µl of 60% ethanol and were assayed as described above . |
| 13 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 14 | Analogies raced through Maud 's mind and were rejected as too inflammatory . |
| 15 | Expression vectors pMc5edcm and pMa5edcmS are members of the pMa/c family of phasmids ( 20 ) and were constructed as described elsewhere ( Hanck and Fritz , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 16 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 17 | We were in touch with the Department of Health last week and were assured that that announcement was im imminent , that the Minister had not yet agreed what those conditions would be . |
| 18 | The IE-3 probes contained a strong Vmw175 binding site ( 23 ) located at the cap site of the HSV-1 IE-3 gene and were isolated as either an AvaI-BamHI fragment ( coordinates -18 to +27 ) or as an EcoRI-BamHI fragment ( coordinates -108 to +27 ) from the plasmid pIE-3CAT ( 20 ) . |
| 19 | The following modules appeared in the 1990/91 National Certificate Catalogue and were revised and replaced in the 1991/92 Catalogue . |
| 20 | Symptoms were compared with those before treatment and were scored as follows : ( 0 ) no symptoms ; ( 1 ) major symptoms cured , patient pleased with result of treatment ; ( 2 ) some improvement , patient not wholly satisfied with result of treatment ; ( 3 ) no change in symptoms . |
| 21 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 22 | Thereupon the appellants changed their pleas to guilty of unlawful possession and were convicted and sentenced . |
| 23 | By this time diamonds were well-known to western Europe , and were worn as jewels , but even so it was not until as late as 1796 that the chemical nature of diamond was finally established . |
| 24 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 25 | They kept running , and were gone before Susan had a chance to figure out what that meant and whether she should answer it . |
| 26 | Discussions over the Chevron deal had started four years previously , and were renewed when the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 allowed control over natural resources to pass to individual republics . |
| 27 | England piled on the pressure and were rewarded when Martin Offiah struck in the 55th minute . |
| 28 | The largest information technology companies were primarily telecommunications and hardware companies , and were listed as follows : |
| 29 | The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force . |
| 30 | Weapons such as the Pershing-II , launched from Western Europe , could reach Soviet territory in about ten minutes and were seen as strategic rather than intermediate in character by Soviet negotiators . |