Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’ |
| 2 | With Derby County ahead against Swindon Town , the odds were stacked against Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | The fugitives were traced to Sydney . ’ |
| 4 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 5 | Later , new ports were developed at Sunderland Point and Glasson for larger ships than could negotiate the estuary as far as Lancaster itself . |
| 6 | These were developed in England where he had come in search of further anthropological inspiration after reading Frazer 's Golden Bough . |
| 7 | After exposure , the slides were developed in Ilford Phenprint at 18°C , fixed in Ilford Hypam fixative , and counterstained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 8 | They were developed in Kodak D19 developer at 17°C , counterstained with haematoxylin and eosin and mounted under coverslips in DePeX ( BDH ) . |
| 9 | The way in which the goals and targets were developed in Australia also differs noticeably from the English experience , where the whole process was controlled from within the Department of Health . |
| 10 | They were developed by Gerver ( personal communication ) and his tests were slightly adapted for our purposes , but consisted of a tape-recorded message which had errors inserted in the story ( error detection ) or had whole words omitted ( cloze ) . |
| 11 | Early macroeconomic models with quantity rationing were developed by Solow and Stiglitz ( 1968 ) , Barro and Grossman ( 1971 ) and Malinvaud ( 1977 ) . |
| 12 | The current protocols on access to and inter-lending of theses in Britain were developed by SCONUL , and they are printed in each issue of Aslib 's Index to Theses . |
| 13 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a sister product to the established First Word Plus should rate so highly , both were developed by GST , when you consider that word processing under a graphical environment such as GEM is almost the same as simple desktop publishing . |
| 14 | the industry standard control codes for dot matrix printers were developed by Epson and virtually all software packages and most dot matrix printers either follow or improve on these codes . |
| 15 | The consequences for behavioural psychology were developed by Berne ( 1964 ) . |
| 16 | During the pontificates of Clement V and John XXII ( 1305–34 ) twenty-nine cardinals claimed some one hundred and three livings in England , especially canonries and prebends in the cathedrals of York , Lincoln and Salisbury ; moreover , sixty other papal officials were beneficed in England , some at the instigation of the crown . |
| 17 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 18 | Correlation coefficients were calculated as Spearman rank correlations and comparison between the two methods by the sign test . |
| 19 | The percentage of time at pH<4 , the minutes at pH<4 , the number of episodes of reflux , those lasting longer than five minutes , and the duration of the longest period of reflux were calculated with Esophogram 9802 Version 5.10 ( Synectics Medical , Stockholm ) . |
| 20 | All brochure prices were calculated in June 1991 ( at Dfl 3.22 = £1 ) . |
| 21 | Correlation coefficients were calculated by Pearson 's method . |
| 22 | Correlation coefficients were calculated by Spearman rank correlation test and , in selected instances , the chi square test . |
| 23 | Bulgaria 's former communist leader Todor Zhivkov and his second-in-command Milko Balev were indicted on Dec. 7 on charges of " especially gross embezzlement " . |
| 24 | Nine air force generals and four colonels were indicted on Jan. 15 in connection with the crash near the island of Ustica ( north of Sicily ) on June 27 , 1980 , of an Itavia airline DC9 , in which all 81 people on board were killed . |
| 25 | The eight were amongst 21 members and associates of the family who were indicted in March 1990 . |
| 26 | The difficulties involved in producing a logically satisfactory theory of time were emphasized by Parmenides ' follower Zeno of Elea in his subtle paradoxes concerning motion . |
| 27 | Thus the ‘ tithe war ’ was supported in agricultural areas , a cotton campaign in Lancashire , and shipping policies were emphasized in Liverpool . |
| 28 | Both the Russian visit to Torness and Gordon Beattie 's secondment were arranged through WANO and are part of the increasing links between the British nuclear industry and operating companies in Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | The talks were arranged at Frelimo 's request by the Italian government and the Vatican , apparently without the knowledge of Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe , who had attempted to mediate in the conflict . |
| 30 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |