Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed temporary arrangements were explained and authority was given for the advance of £200 or £300 in temporary loans to some of the workmen to enable them to replace tools destroyed . |
| 2 | The approach of denudation chronology was assimilated in what Jennings ( 1973 ) characterized as ‘ the geomorphic band waggon parade ’ in which a series of fashions in geomorphology were listed as denudation chronology , climatic geomorphology , morphometry , general systems approach , process study and structural geomorphology . |
| 3 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown during a late-night party . |
| 4 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown at a late-night party . |
| 5 | Whereas the satiric intentions of Divorce Italian Style were pointed and comic , Alfredo Alfredo gets unduly preachy as Dustin and his mistress join the four-year fight to change the Italian law on divorce . |
| 6 | It was efficient in that most graduates were placed and unemployment rare . |
| 7 | Popo Molefe and Patrick Lekota , released from detention on Dec. 15 [ see p. 37116 ] , were reinstated as secretary-general and publicity secretary respectively , and the UDF announced " the intensification of the struggle " . |
| 8 | The references in their works were guarded but controversy was stimulated from 1823 by the distribution by Francis Place of handbills explaining in detail methods of contraception — sponge , sheath , withdrawal . |
| 9 | The puppies were given as Christmas presents but were rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 10 | Unless nitrogen pollution is significantly reduced , many of the rare plants for which conservation sites were designated or nature reserves were set up will disappear . |
| 11 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 12 | Since union recognition and union density are both positively related to establishment size ( see Daniel/Millward , 1983 ) , we tested to see if the above results were sustained when size was controlled for . |
| 13 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 14 | Ibuprofen and cimetidine were stopped and dexamethasone continued . |
| 15 | ( B ) 28S rRNA bands were quantitated and recovery of the samples were compared densitometrically . |
| 16 | During the Second World War most Italians were interned as enemy aliens , even though they may have been respected members of the community for 30 or 40 years — and even had relatives serving in the British forces . |
| 17 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 18 | Their ports and forts in the Spice Islands or the West Indies or the West Coast of Africa were intended as supply bases for shipping and not as the starting point for territorial expansion . |
| 19 | A large number of coins was found in ‘ the mortary destruction layer ’ of the vestibule and in ‘ robbing pits ’ in the cella , and the assumption was that they came from hoards buried in the temple floors or structure and were scattered when demolition took place . |
| 20 | Management was strengthened , operating costs were contained and production performed well in both cashmere processing and woolcombing . |
| 21 | After two , four , and 18 hours incubation , cells were harvested and cytospin preparations onto poly-L-lysine coated slides were made . |
| 22 | Her lips , which were almost as pale as the rest of her face , were cracked and papery . |
| 23 | They were cracked and crumbling , split and broken . |
| 24 | A few extremely minor matters were resolved but conflict arose because of American failure to send rice supplies to north Korea . |
| 25 | TWO kidnapped men were rescued when motorway police stopped a getaway van for going too slowly . |
| 26 | COASTGUARDS slammed organisers of a race in Swansea Bay after 65 teenagers were rescued when gale force gusts capsized their dinghies . |
| 27 | Unfortunately for the West German mining industry , the reports of resurrection were exaggerated and demand was weak . |
| 28 | These seigniorial rights were varied and complex : some were disguised rent payments ; other residuary feudal dues ; others arose from the sale or grant of municipal office . |
| 29 | Classification encompassed the methods of Ray , Tournefort and Linnaeus , titles used by botanic writers and bibliographic details were included and mention made of the country of origin . |
| 30 | Demonstrators invaded the pitch , but they were repelled and play continued . |