Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 2 | The major task involved was to re-design the transmissions to fit the small space alongside the engine . |
| 3 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 4 | As right-wing violence against foreigners continued on an almost daily basis , mainly in the east but with some incidents in the west , the Brandenburg Interior Minister Alwin Ziel called on Sept. 8 for the banning of neo-Nazi organizations which he believed were masterminding the attacks , particularly the Cottbus-based German Alternative ( DA ) . |
| 5 | In focusing on that sphere of life which provides the greatest potential for the expression of individual autonomy , urban sociology is uniquely equipped to chart a path out of the ‘ iron cage ’ which Weber believed was encompassing the whole of modern society . |
| 6 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 7 | In one of the most recent textbooks ( Goudie , 1981b ) the approach adopted was to review the impact of man on environment and processes generally but in this section the purpose is much narrower : to indicate some of the research investigations pursued by physical geographers and to refer to the attitudes which this engendered . |
| 8 | [ The Faroese has earlier appealed to Greenpeace — which had strongly campaigned against the islanders ' traditional whale-hunt — for help in countering pollution which they claimed were making the whales inedible — see ED 49/50 . ] |
| 9 | In the ensuing days there were further raids on campuses throughout the country as the authorities sought to arrest those whom they alleged were fomenting the unrest . |
| 10 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 11 | But Citrine and Self defended their policy against critics , whom they felt were ignoring the new and differing requirements of larger organisations . |
| 12 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 13 | What was more , it still was n't clear who he thought was doing the forgiving . |
| 14 | What Ceauşescu managed was to marry the traditions of conspiracy and tight discipline , developed by Lenin and Stalin to bring the Communist Party to power , with the local legacy of Ottoman rule : the methods and the morals of cosa nostra . |
| 15 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 16 | ‘ Then I was shocked to discover someone I knew was running the place . |
| 17 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |
| 18 | All that they did was make the room slightly wobbly . |
| 19 | But all he did was to leave the shore and head fast for another part of the lagoon , where the moulds and fungi overhand the water . |
| 20 | Carrie waited , but when he moved all he did was to lift the tray out of the box . |
| 21 | Nothing 's ever been taken ; all they did was rearrange the lounge furniture . |
| 22 | ‘ Your father was the one who struck the deals ; all I did was choose the animals . ’ |
| 23 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 24 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
| 25 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 26 | All he did was to invoke the dubious metaphysical principle of " sufficient reason " in order to ensure the existential uniqueness of his monads and secure a basis for a meaningful distinction between numerical and qualitative identity . |
| 27 | The only thing that it did was to clarify the legality of its position . |
| 28 | With this in mind , the first thing I did was to join the Oxford Exploration Club . |
| 29 | Sjahrir later acquired the reputation of a resistance leader , but although he refused to collaborate with the Japanese all he really did was to monitor the declining fortunes of Japan on his illegal radio . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not understand how any financial institution can rob two small children of their rights , when all we did was follow the Abbey National 's advice all along . |