Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , they do not include patients who died or were lost to follow up in the prolonged interval between treatment and the onset of symptoms . |
| 2 | A person who distributes inflammatory material to equable recipients can argue with some plausibility that he intended to display his contempt for the views of the recipient , or was seeking to indicate in forcefully graphic terms that he held a different point of view from the one espoused by his audience . |
| 3 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 4 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 5 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 6 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 7 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 8 | This , I think , was the point that was trying to point out , about the Scottish system and the French system , that they have this independent investigating magistrates structure , so that erm , the police do n't so much become involved in one side of the case . |
| 9 | He had the casting vote , as chairmen do , and he voted to say that he thought opting out would be good for Banbury School , but of course he was the chairman of the parents group that was trying to opt out , so that was not greeted very well amongst some of us , I think . |
| 10 | So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver . |
| 11 | It was n't only because she did n't want to trail damage amongst those who 'd helped her ; partly it was that calculating element in her mind again , that perpetual level of awareness that was tuned to seek out and recognise any opportunity that she could take to keep her in the game and moving . |
| 12 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 13 | As the door banged Peggy and her grandmother threw themselves into each other 's arms , one arm only around each other for they had to suppress the laughter that was bursting to escape in loud , hilarious guffaws … . |
| 14 | I did n't have a hairbrush but a long pole that was used to open up the attic hatch . |
| 15 | Julius murmured softly in satisfaction and his body pressed still closer , demanding more now , desire a hard ache that was threatening to run out of control . |
| 16 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |
| 17 | I had a very deep feeling that the attack on the village by the Black Watch was not going to be successful due to the fact that the enemy were well dug in and were determined to hold on to this position . |
| 18 | It was as if , in some unfathomable way , out of an inscrutable symmetry , these three called each other up , between the lake and the fells , and were determined to bring about one of the essential public scandals of Romantic times . |
| 19 | All the fish stocked are extremely peaceful and were intended to get on well — as indeed they have . |
| 20 | Four patients ( D , F , G , and I ) had been seen in the Leeds colitis clinic before the policy of surveillance had been started and were lost to follow up . |
| 21 | The two patients who did not respond to retaining refused to have a second training sessions and were lost to follow up , after three months . |
| 22 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 23 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 24 | ‘ We raised the possibility of an MBO and were told to get back in our box , ’ says finance director Nick Pearch . |
| 25 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 26 | The women were better provided for and were allowed to sit down . |
| 27 | Ministers agreed to open projects to the Soviet Union and Japan for collaboration and were expected to meet in late 1992 to review the situation . |
| 28 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 29 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 30 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |