Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found traces of human skin on its teeth , so I think we kin safely assume the damage wuz inflicted by some kinda karate blow . |
| 2 | The plan to pay all 25 benefits from the same office — rather than make claimants chase about between different centres -was announced by Social Services Secretary Peter Lilley . |
| 3 | Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded . |
| 4 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 5 | The cupboards were stacked with discarded baby clothing , receipts for adverts in London and suburban newspapers , anxious letters and telegrams from worried mothers , in fact virtually everything to give the thankful Detective Inspector a watertight case . |
| 6 | Hundreds of crates of beer were stacked against three of the whitewashed walls but the fourth , and longest , wall was hidden behind rows of wooden racks lined with bottles of both local and imported wines . |
| 7 | Cartridge boxes were stacked in two layers . |
| 8 | Persian books were stacked in disordered piles ; in the corner glistened a big brass samovar incised with Islamic decoration . |
| 9 | The two other local mosaics , the Keynsham Villa mosaics , which were excavated in 1924 and last exhibited about three years ago , will also be on display . |
| 10 | He sought refuge in a hotel ballroom with his cast and crew as roofs were ripped off nearby buildings and power lines blew down . |
| 11 | Everywhere French flags were ripped in half and trampled on and great gangs of young soldiers joined together to shout and curse the very name of France . |
| 12 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 13 | Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors , whose walls were punctuated by closed doors . |
| 14 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 15 | Those who had moved were traced through various means including the local Electoral Register , Leicestershire Family Health Services Authority , the local Registrar of Births and Deaths , and the NHS Central Register at Southport in Lancashire . |
| 16 | Later , shoe-shapes were traced on black card . |
| 17 | Her brother Mark broke the news after they were traced by Canadian police . |
| 18 | And if he were propelled by such categorical imperative to fail , he could not reek loveableness out of every pore … |
| 19 | Bull and bear baiting have gone , but we are left with remnants of former use in such breeds as bulldogs , whose exaggerated lower jaws were developed through selective breeding , to hang onto the muzzles of bulls . |
| 20 | These were developed between 1965 and 1970 , mainly by Roger Penrose and myself . |
| 21 | As more and more uses were found for computers in business and commerce , as well as in science and engineering , even easier languages were developed for lay use . |
| 22 | Comprehensive quality-assurance procedures for the onsite measurements were developed for this project . |
| 23 | For an answer we will need to look elsewhere : at the theories of conversational principles and speech acts , ideas which , as their names suggest , were developed with spoken language in mind , but are as applicable to written discourse as to spoken . |
| 24 | The plates were developed with high performance thin layer chromatography and read with a scanner densitometer ( Shimadzu CS 920 ) . |
| 25 | Hospital services were developed without general practitioners being asked whether they were required and often at the expense of the more routine but essential treatment our patients required . |
| 26 | They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk . |
| 27 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 28 | As the antihistamines were developed from early attempts to find adrenaline blockers , this was not entirely surprising . |
| 29 | The physic gardens of the monasteries were mostly formal , with rectangular or square beds , but the gardens attached to private homes were developed from these simple plans into intricate designs of curved beds edged with dwarf hedges of box , southernwood or lavender . |
| 30 | Company MBA and Diploma distance learning programmes were developed in 1986 and have an impressive client list including Shell , BICC and Pedigree Petfoods . |