Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest visitors 23,000 a day-were advised to eschew the winding staircase of 1792 steps ( corresponding to the year of the Proclamation of the Republic ) . |
| 2 | Various strategies , individual and collective , were developed to combat the organizational pressure . |
| 3 | Forms of alliance were developed to enlist the service of nobles whose lands lay beyond its own lordships . |
| 4 | Diaphragm ballvalves were developed to overcome the noise of ordinary piston types . |
| 5 | These methods were developed to aid the physical mapping of the fission yeast S.pombe ( 1 , 10 ) but are applicable to other hybridisation data . |
| 6 | In anesthetised rats , models were developed to study the effects of intra-aortic ( ia ) serotonin on ileocolonic and colonic transit , and the effects on transit of a number of 5HT receptor antagonists . |
| 7 | As a result monstrous tower blocks , not fit for human souls , were erected to replace the neat streets of individual terraced houses , vast impersonal motorways supplanted the agreeably irregular network of real roads , and as part of the dehumanization process , the Great railway stations , the local cinemas , and the corner shops , the familiar landmarks of a lifetime , were swept away . |
| 8 | The confidence intervals for the odds ratios were calculated using the method of Cornfield , and the multivariate odds ratio and its confidence interval were obtained from unconditional logistic regression . |
| 9 | Mixing curves are ticked to represent 20% increments , and were calculated using the following parameters . |
| 10 | Correlation coefficients were calculated using the Spearman 's non-parametric coefficient . |
| 11 | All statistics were calculated using the ARCUS Professional statistics package . |
| 12 | Nor would it appear that these awful prophecies from her Majesty 's Chief Inspector were calculated to depress the spirits of the royal household . |
| 13 | Rousseau 's judgements and highly insulting remarks about the Opéra 's instrumentalists were calculated to discredit the whole establishment : the ‘ woodchopper ’ was just the most prominent symbol of authoritarian decadence . |
| 14 | These were arranged to allow the morning feeding to be carried out and a one-and-a-half hour break for tea allowed many farmers to return for the second feed and to check the stock . |
| 15 | Two landmarks ( L+ , L- ) were arranged to predict the spatial location of hidden food nearby that was either accessible ( F+ ) or inaccessible ( F- ) . |
| 16 | Torrens also points out that many of the early masonic lodges were ‘ orientated to the setting or rising sun ’ and ‘ others were aligned to receive the light from certain stars ’ . |
| 17 | Sequences were aligned using the program PILEUP ( UWGCG ) . |
| 18 | And yet we were seeing seeing the film from the Americans where the film stars of the day with their twin sets and fully fashion stockings and the pearls and what have you . |
| 19 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 20 | Three reasons were given to explain the observation that samples of lobon-gur mixture from Phase 1 unions were less likely to contain dangerously high amounts of salt than samples from Phase 2 unions . |
| 21 | The government issued statements , before and after the April arrests , criticizing the activities of DP members in northern Uganda and suggesting that they were helping to perpetuate the insurgency , although no evidence of this was presented . |
| 22 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 23 | Model mum Jilly and her little sidekick were helping to launch the NSPCC 's anti-whacking offensive in the wake of a survey about parenting . |
| 24 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 25 | Even in Central Asia , the railway and its stations were helping to make the world one . |
| 26 | As early as the Third dynasty of Ur officials were designated to supervise the production of gold vessels and jewellery for use in the temple . |
| 27 | The policy agenda of the Conservative administration after 1979 reasserted the importance of community care and a series of initiatives were undertaken involving the transfer of finance from health to social care , as a means of enhancing the development and co-ordination of care in the community . |
| 28 | During 1992 initiatives were undertaken to raise the profile and image of the Association , promote membership and improve awareness of the benefits and services offered . |
| 29 | Two urchins were struggling to detach the machine gun from its mount . |
| 30 | On the contrary , it flourished within a discipline that had emerged to help the farmers who were struggling to exploit the prairies in a way that destroyed the traditional climax . |