Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ . |
| 2 | He was talking about his uncle and gradually she realised that his words were meant to impress her . |
| 3 | No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples . |
| 4 | And then he was gone , and the fans were left cheering his showmanship , while the girls who had roses held them as though they were made of gold . |
| 5 | Spain , Greece , Ireland and Portugal were allowed to keep their controls until the end of 1992 . |
| 6 | Five years ago , schools were asked to develop their programme of personal relationships so that the right sort of foundations could be laid at an early age . |
| 7 | But if these commentators believed that schools were failing to hone their pupils ' political critical faculties to a sufficient sharpness , by the 1980s , as we have seen , right-wing commentators were expressing the contrary view . |
| 8 | His initial steps were taken to foil what he interpreted as attempts by the superpowers or their proxies to bolster the bipolar order . |
| 9 | When it was vacated no steps were taken to have it boarded up by the local authority . |
| 10 | Readers were told to beat their ploughshares into swords . |
| 11 | Cranes were used to hoist it into place on the 8th March 1986 . |
| 12 | It was a set of problems that were problems to no-one but Germany , and the solutions were calculated to satisfy no-one but Germany . |
| 13 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
| 14 | And when I heard the guards were going to cut our rations yet again … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That 's right , the horn-rimmed spectacles were adapted to make his ears project . |
| 16 | The traders were asked to give their grievences . |
| 17 | All political organizations were required to bring their statutes in line with federal party laws within one year of unification in order to retain the right to take part in elections . |
| 18 | The social pressures I put upon the kids were designed to make my maths teaching more effective . |
| 19 | Furthermore the deputy heads were expected to discuss their work with the head teacher , and a visit by two members of the LEA 's advisory service was intended to provide an opportunity for the head to ‘ account ’ to his peers . |
| 20 | The memorandum specified that the employment of young people should be primarily considered ‘ from the point of view of their educational interests and permanent careers rather than from that of their immediate earning capacities ’ , and consequently LEAs were urged to undertake their new responsibilities and to exercise them ‘ in the fullest co-operation with the national system of Labour exchanges ’ . |
| 21 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 22 | Thus , in a sense , the Jews were asked to perpetuate their own myth in the terms in which the Greeks had invented it . |
| 23 | They had country and western night on there , now I think I was doing nowt one Saturday night and Sue and Steven were going to hear her dad . |
| 24 | Local Communist Parties were authorized to approach their Labour Parties in an attempt to make electoral agreements , and in the November 1934 Municipal elections the bulk of Communist candidates were withdrawn in favour of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 26 | More than anything else in the world she wanted him to touch her again , but already some of the unadulterated pleasure was slipping away and the doubts were beginning to reassert themselves . |
| 27 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 28 | As they left the embassy , those who had arrived in cars were invited to leave their keys , and in return were promised that their vehicles would be brought eventually to the West . |
| 29 | lots more lads were killed do you see , lots of them eh ? |
| 30 | Before establishing the final protocol , various tissue fixation methods were compared to investigate their influence on staining intensity for both the PCNA and the BrdU protocol . |