Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the patients , however , were overtly diabetic , had clinical steatorrhoea , or were taking pancreatic enzyme supplements . |
| 2 | Patients who had undergone previous gastric surgery , or were taking cytotoxic drugs or prednisolone at a dose greater than 5 mg each day were excluded . |
| 3 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 4 | These women were either married , cohabiting or were having some form of a relationship with these men . |
| 5 | & were divorced this year … |
| 6 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 7 | No trace has yet been found of the French gallery owner Basmadjian who disappeared or was kidnapped two years ago in the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | The door had a black painted cast-iron knocker , brass numbers and handle that were polished each week , and when I became old enough to be trusted with this job , I felt very grown up . |
| 9 | I WAS interested to see the All Blacks trial teams that were announced last week . |
| 10 | Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of the things that were said last Sunday were the most severe I 've heard in my life . |
| 12 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 13 | All the changes that were made underlined trends already evident before Fulton reported and none made any basic difference to the civil service . |
| 14 | Despite the strenuous efforts that were made each time to prevent them , accidents would happen . |
| 15 | Thank you Chairman , I appreciate that erm prudence is n't flavour of the month in the current majority at this County Council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning |
| 16 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 17 | From his mother , and her more easy-going and less consciously nonconformist relations , he found sanctions for that profound exploration of sensations that were given early expression in his gift for ‘ composition ’ . |
| 18 | The one they stood at was made of heavy chain-link , stretched between towering concrete posts that were spaced fifteen metres apart . |
| 19 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 20 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman may have in mind some initial teething troubles that were experienced this year in connection with local management of primary schools . |
| 21 | During its short life Gandalf 's Garden evolved a style which made It , Oz , and the others that were to come later models of detachment and worldliness . |
| 22 | Prick out cinerarias , primulas and calceolarias that were sown last month before seedlings become overcrowded . |
| 23 | It is built with proprietary 0.8 micron CMOS technology , and follows the 1.2 micron 256Kb and 512Kb Flash memories that were introduced last year . |
| 24 | Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences . |
| 25 | Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications . |
| 26 | Neutron stars , however , were not observed until 1967 , when Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish at Cambridge discovered objects called pulsars that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves . |
| 27 | Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge , Jocelyn Bell , of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves . |
| 28 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 29 | This was the same youngsters that were playing two years ago . |
| 30 | I have always thought that league results are what matter most to Motherwell and I expect a harder game than were given that day . ’ |