Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown during a late-night party . |
| 3 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown at a late-night party . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | The puppies were given as Christmas presents but were rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 6 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | TWO kidnapped men were rescued when motorway police stopped a getaway van for going too slowly . |
| 13 | COASTGUARDS slammed organisers of a race in Swansea Bay after 65 teenagers were rescued when gale force gusts capsized their dinghies . |
| 14 | As early as 1705 there were five of these with well-defined functions each handling relations with a specific group of countries , and new departments were added as time went on ( for example a Ceremonial Department which evolved in the reign of Catherine II ) . |
| 15 | The specially designed rain traps around the windscreen and the door mirror housing were modified until rain was successfully deflected clear of the side windows . |
| 16 | Patients not fulfilling the criteria of improvement , and those in whom the VHAI increased compared with that of the previous weekly evaluation , were considered as treatment failure and treatment was stopped . |
| 17 | It was at first feared that the car bomb had been planted by terrorists and nearby residents in the Liverpool suburb were evacuated while Army bomb disposal experts examined the scene . |
| 18 | Neighbours were evacuated as smoke billowed from the semi-detached bungalow in Didcot , Oxon , late on Christmas eve . |
| 19 | TENANTS were evacuated when fire broke out in a block of Stockton flats . |
| 20 | Shore-based task forces and rummage crews based on Aberdeen and in Shetland were organised as awareness of the potential revenue loss from oil-related traffic grew at HQ . |
| 21 | These eventually were fossilised as coal and from coal-mines today come the bones of those first vertebrate inhabitants of the land , the amphibians . |
| 22 | Nine Yugoslav policemen were injured when Dynamo Zagreb fans rioted at Borac Banja Luka . |
| 23 | The work was centred on the PISAN CANTOS , which were written when Pound was imprisoned after his arrest on treason charges ( for broadcasting in favour of the Fascist cause on Italian radio ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I was up all night before the event to make sure we were prepared because attention to detail is so important , ’ said Jerry , whose 13 years in the business have included a spell at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 25 | Then they were separated when war broke out . ’ |
| 26 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 27 | They were built as country cottages with platform canopies on one side , portes cochères on the other , all surrounded by flowers . |
| 28 | We were built as gene machines , created to pass on our genes . |
| 29 | In the past , when houses were accepted as payment for death duties , the selection of the contents acquired with them tended to be made mainly on a museum-oriented scale of value , concentrating predominantly on items that were not only of high quality , but also usually an integral part of the design of a room . |
| 30 | This agreement was an essential item incorporated into the Form of Tender , and allowances made accordingly , although some adjustments to the programming were made as work proceeded on site . |