Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hypochromicity factors ( F ) [ d(CGCAATCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGATTGCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGCXXTCG) F = 0.8 ; d(CGXTTGCG) F = 0.7 ] were calculated as previously described ( 14 ) and used to calculate concentrations of the single strands using published ( 15 ) extinction coefficients of the nucleosides ( ε 260 d 3C A = 11.1 10 3 mol -1 lcm -1 ) . |
| 2 | At the time these changes were justified by the need to maintain social order and the ‘ violations ’ of individual rights were explained as purely temporary expedients . |
| 3 | On day 8 , the rats were sedated as before and weighed . |
| 4 | These forecasts were criticized because both current practice and future intentions with regard to increased access to HE meant that many mature entrants to HE particularly in the public sector — who admit between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of mature entrants — do not possess the formal qualifications for HE . |
| 5 | The first Alpine skiers were regarded as rather eccentric , but the sport gradually took hold where there were already mountain resorts such as Davos in Switzerland . |
| 6 | And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought . |
| 7 | They were regarded as both beautiful and terrifying . |
| 8 | The earliest horseless carriages were regarded as socially dangerous and the first legislation to control them required that each should be accompanied by three persons — a driver , a passenger in case the driver was taken ill , and a third person walking in front carrying a red flag . |
| 9 | In some areas rate levels were already beyond the limits which were regarded as socially and politically acceptable . |
| 10 | Sixty five years ago our continents were regarded as absolutely fixed . |
| 11 | Stable exchange rates were regarded as absolutely essential to reduce LDCs ' economic management problems and better adjustment mechanisms were required to share the burden of external imbalances between deficit and surplus countries . |
| 12 | Both traditions were very marginal in their impact in the inter-war period ; their practitioners were regarded as highly eccentric by the small minority who knew of their activities , and as a nuisance by the police . |
| 13 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 14 | Traditionally these personnel functions were regarded as quite separate from design functions and indeed they were often left until the hardware design and commissioning was virtually complete . |
| 15 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 16 | These kinds of exemptions were regarded as potentially harmful by organizations such as the Royal Town Planning Institute . |
| 17 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 18 | The Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were regarded as so weak and uncertain in practice that they rarely , if ever , featured in debates on economic policy matters . |
| 19 | As for cleansing and lighting these were regarded as relatively minor details whose provision was hardly important . |
| 20 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
| 21 | Foreign Minister Francisco Ordóñez retained his post , and the Interior and Education ministries also remained under the same ministers who , like Ordóñez , were regarded as relatively independent of the PSOE . |
| 22 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 23 | The samples were treated as above . |
| 24 | The children were treated as fully legitimate members of the mother 's taravad . |
| 25 | Under the Communist regime , orphans were treated as mentally handicapped and given little help . |
| 26 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 27 | Except for these older men who owned or tenanted land , however , only two were recalled as independently retired , and both were middle-class businessmen . |
| 28 | There is no music , only the hoarse , erratic bellow of a kudu horn and the chanting , a strange noise which comes from inside the earth itself , as though the rocks and the soil were singing as best they could . |
| 29 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 30 | And the people on this side you do n't know how they were reacting as well . |