Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 2 | Synthetic drugs such as quinacrine and chloroquine , were developed to replace natural quinine but some strains of malaria are found to be resistant and doctors are using quinine again to treat malaria in Vietnam , fortunately , trees grow well in Java which is now the main global source . |
| 3 | The YF-22 was conceived in the days of the cold war , and many of its exotic features were developed to defeat predicted Soviet advances that may or may not now materialise . |
| 4 | As long as any feudal dues remained valuable the lords desired to protect them , and rules about title to land at common law were developed to aid this process . |
| 5 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 6 | Such arches were erected to commemorate important military or domestic happenings , or in memory and respect of generals and emperors . |
| 7 | Percentage change in ozone on 25 March at 56mbar resulting solely from chemical processes acting from the start of the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 8 | Change in the total ozone ( Dobson Units ) due to heterogeneous processes for the period 15 December to 25 March from the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 9 | Percentage of the model domain north of 25°N covered by polar stratospheric clouds at 56mbar for the simulations in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations ( run 1 ) , present-day levels of CO 2 but with model-calculated ozone concentrations ( run 2 ) , doubled CO 2 with climatological ozone concentrations ( run 3 ) , and doubled CO 2 and model determined ozone concentrations ( run 4 ) . |
| 10 | Extensions to both East and West Breakwaters were completed giving added protection to the approaches to the Harbour and Docks . |
| 11 | Weber 's photographs were given display that was unprecedented for anyone in fashion , particularly someone so young . " |
| 12 | On days five to seven , 7.5 mg sodiumpicosulfate ( Laxoberon — Boehringer Ingelheim ) were given to facilitate colonic washout . |
| 13 | some students were given shown some s some utterances |
| 14 | She had pale crimped hair over her temples , and her lips were parted to reveal large , even teeth . |
| 15 | The Americans as well as the British were helping to bring this about . |
| 16 | These areas were designated to conserve valued landscapes and to make them more accessible to the general public ( or at least to those who own cars ) . |
| 17 | Johnnie Warburton renewed his acquaintance with Jack when they were designated to work alternate shifts . |
| 18 | The distribution and structural data strongly suggested the possibility that ICAM-3 would be a third ligand for LFA-1 and experiments were undertaken to test this hypothesis . |
| 19 | Stolpe denied that those contacts had harmed anyone , and asserted that they were undertaken to help those he represented as a lawyer for the Evangelical church in the former GDR . |
| 20 | There were other grievances : leave was difficult to get ; their women at home were struggling to keep small businesses and farms going , while thousands of fit young munitions workers were exempt from military service . |
| 21 | Wherever you looked at the French giant , Renault was making progress in 1992 where other manufacturers were struggling to stand still . |
| 22 | Sometimes we were struggling to get ten minutes each . |
| 23 | Mr Hamer said existing slaughterhouses were struggling to get sufficient lambs to keep existing plant operating at full capacity and that the Fortex development would be a case of job re-allocation rather than job creation . |
| 24 | Er ninety three was not a good year for recruiting from the point of view of elections as has already been said because we did n't have any elections and therefore er it was n't possible to er to canvas and consequently er we were struggling to recruit new members . |
| 25 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 26 | The laboratory report showed that Mr Reynolds had a urinary tract infection and antibiotics were prescribed to treat this . |
| 27 | When we 'd see these old people , we had to help them in every way , we were taught to do that . ’ |
| 28 | The slides were examined using transmitted light microscopy to assess qualitatively the presence or absence of immunostaining , and its distribution . |
| 29 | If we were to continue teaching brief introductory courses to continually expanding numbers , constant repetition would impair their quality , and would eventually impair it beyond recognition . |
| 30 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |