Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He once finished third , but more often he has sacrificed his own chances by slowing down to help British runners who were struggling to complete the course . |
| 32 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 33 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 34 | We were taught to replace the turf at the bottom of the bank to preserve grazing and to leave the face of the newly-cut bank as smooth as possible . |
| 35 | The authors also report that a group of 12 teachers were taught to score the LIT with 90 per cent accuracy . |
| 36 | Where I come from , we were taught to prefer the best of everything . |
| 37 | On the day after Kiffin Rockwell chalked up the Lafayette 's first victory , orders were received transferring the Squadron to the Verdun front . |
| 38 | As a result of the successful implementation of the " persons ' system , requests were received to extend the PMIS to cover new areas of work . |
| 39 | Articles were amended to encourage the development of the private sector and increased foreign investment . |
| 40 | The overall data were examined using the SPSS/ PC programme on an IBM PS2 personal computer . |
| 41 | The corpses of 56 cetaceans washed up on Welsh beaches since 1989 were examined to determine the cause of death . |
| 42 | He looked into the cradle the painters were using to paint the outside of the balustrade from , and saw an old radio so spotted with paint it could have been an art exhibit . |
| 43 | It was littered with ladders , pails and other decorators ' paraphernalia and the air was permeated with the odour of the chemical the workmen were using to strip the woodwork . |
| 44 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 45 | Guilds were formed to supplement the slender resources of benefices by financing additional services and so forth ; any friendly-society function was likely to be subsidiary , only a minority providing financial assistance for needy members . |
| 46 | Local Clubs were formed to discuss the topics raised in the monthly selection . |
| 47 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 48 | Some were rinsing brooms ; some were scrubbing clean the pans they 'd used for plastering , scouring them with river silt and grass . |
| 49 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 50 | Differences in transfection efficiency were normalized taking the β-gal values as control . |
| 51 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 52 | Walls were painted to echo the close studding of the timber-framed structure , although in the form of columns with different-patterned capitals in silhouette . |
| 53 | If the focus of helping young people in residential care were redefined to identify the development of personal self-worth as a primary aim , then it would be possible to achieve this by including both dimensions , neither to the exclusion of the other . |
| 54 | These ‘ turned ’ guns ( or drakes ) weighed a third less than conventional iron cannon and were intended to replace the costlier ( but lighter ) bronze guns on ships . |
| 55 | Water , being a basic necessity for life itself , was highly venerated , and pagan ceremonies and offerings were intended to placate the water deities believed to inhabit springs and wells . |
| 56 | These succeeded the foundation of the NATO alliance in Europe and were intended to constrain the influence of Soviet and Chinese communism . |
| 57 | These direct contacts with the people and with the maquis were intended to replicate the effect of his arrival in the capital , to demonstrate by his presence that the state had been restored . |
| 58 | Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million . |
| 59 | The examples of conscription and taxation were intended to give the dependence thesis some plausibility , and in particular to disprove the suggestion that dependence is the mark of adjudication . |
| 60 | The two small cars seated only 32 inside , and it has been speculated that they were intended to draw the trailers during summer operation . |