Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee . |
| 2 | They feared for the safety of relatives and friends who were traced while the three men spent months under medical treatment at Broomfield Hospital . |
| 3 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 4 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |
| 5 | During this time updating and regular reporting procedures were developed and the necessary programs written . |
| 6 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 7 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 8 | Mr Bergg said suspicions were aroused when the people asking questions had a vested interest in getting a certain answer . |
| 9 | The worst fears of the residents were realised as the port was an immediate commercial success and heavy traffic quickly built up . |
| 10 | Its worst fears were realised when the carcass of a badger was found in a nature reserve south of Buckingham . |
| 11 | On 24 May police stations were sacked and the stock exchange was set alight . |
| 12 | The swamps were drained and the pirates were chased out . |
| 13 | Care was taken to ensure that the River Garonne remained open to shipping all the way from Bordeaux to Toulouse ; swamps were drained and the forests lining the river banks were cleared . |
| 14 | The ex-Croydon & District cars reposing at Mitcham Road depôt were renumbered and the B.E.T . |
| 15 | When this system was used the clipping and storing of the fleeces were completed while the sun was off the yard . |
| 16 | Questionnaires were completed as the end of the course approached . |
| 17 | The new buildings on the Convent site were brought gradually into use over the next five years as the planned refurbishments were completed and the School slowly expanded with each new mixed intake . |
| 18 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 19 | During the run , correct answers were checked before the stimulus cards were put into the tachistoscope and the appropriate trial ticked if the subject got the answer correct . |
| 20 | Long-range tanks were fitted and tested , guns were checked and the Hurricanes generally prepared for the flight from Benina ( near Benghazi ) to Malta . |
| 21 | Occupying Guadalcanal among other Solomon Islands , they were checked when the invasion fleet had to be recalled before reaching Port Moresby , for an American naval task force , despite heavy losses , turned back the Japanese fleet on 5 May in the battle of the Coral Sea 300 miles ( 550km ) south of Guadalcanal . |
| 22 | Disbursements from an IMF standby credit arrangement and a World Bank structural adjustment loan were halted and the IMF announced the postponement of the completion date for Jordan 's economic restructuring programme from 1993 to 1995 . |
| 23 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 24 | Again beds were stripped and the bedclothes carried upstairs . |
| 25 | The whole proceedings lasted only twenty-three minutes and assurances were given that the House would be kept informed . |
| 26 | Assurances were given that the tests were not designed to show that men or women are in some way ‘ better ’ than each other , but to trace and display managerial traits and aptitudes . |
| 27 | That caused a tirade , naturally , and instructions were given that the man must not be hired again . |
| 28 | Three options were given and the basic tasks column was taken to indicate work that could only be done under supervision or instruction , or the repetitive work such as feeding . |
| 29 | Pulses were given until the vessel had been flattened and turned dark . |
| 30 | The pots were heated and the essential oils rose in the steam and became lodged within the wool . |