Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flaws were pointed out last year in a report by W.S. Atkins consultants , commissioned by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) . |
| 2 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 3 | The other two stubs were filled in each with amounts of two pounds . |
| 4 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 5 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 6 | Solid silver is extremely heavy , so these were carried on ceremonial occasions by huge men from a special clan on the Indian side of the border . |
| 7 | Between 1984 and 1990 in-depth studies of paraprofessional social service personnel were carried out on-site in Britain , India , Israel , Spain and the USA , in order to examine in more detail the trends and issues revealed by our international survey . |
| 8 | The interviews were carried out some ten months after the initiation of the courses , and included students who had taken part in some twenty courses . |
| 9 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 10 | The tests were carried out some years previously under Soviet rule . |
| 11 | Studies of secretion were carried out three days after irradiation ( during the induction period ) and seven days after irradiation ( at the time that the ulcers appeared ) to see whether the lesion was induced or maintained by hypersecretion of acid or pepsin caused by lower mediastinal irradiation . |
| 12 | Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that . |
| 13 | Many hearts were torn out that day , among them the Prince 's . |
| 14 | The fishermen were lifted out two at a time by a DHC Beaver floatplane and ‘ DRD was repaired . |
| 15 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 16 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 17 | As the corporations were wound up some of the houses passed into private ownership . |
| 18 | Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe were subdued out wide , Brian McClair and Paul Ince having to battle for midfield domination . |
| 19 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 20 | Production was up around ten coaches , and eighty wagons were being manufactured , while an average of sixty carriage repairs were turned out weekly . |
| 21 | The flowers were built up next , starting with the biggest , which were the bright red roses ‘ Eyepaint ’ and ‘ Robin Redbreast ’ . |
| 22 | How did the patients react when they were moved out this week ? |
| 23 | Champion Leeds would agree with that — they were shot down 4-1 . |
| 24 | The tangles were tugged out three times a day by a Norland nurse who attacked the mane in a moral spirit as though it were some disagreeable piece of showing-off . |
| 25 | Three of the rafters were washed up unconscious on the river bank . |
| 26 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 27 | ‘ Partial compensation ’ will delight some : the majority of items were bought up wholesale for between a hundred and a thousand roubles , and inflation makes the clearance sale easier at any rate , it would make life easier for privileged auction attendees from the State Chamber of Cultural and Natural Heritage . |
| 28 | Now and again we had association or exercise , but most of the time we were locked up twenty-two and twenty-three hours a day . |
| 29 | Lifeboats were called out 555 times to people who were in distress but not aboard any craft or vessel , and 185 lives were saved on these calls . |
| 30 | During World War II they were called out 578 times for air-raid warnings . |