Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 2 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 3 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 4 | Somewhere not far away , surrounded by jungle , Chloe and the sepoy lay side by side and rotted , or were eaten by the specialist animals of the night . |
| 5 | They submitted ‘ even when they had no desire for sex or were repulsed by the idea . ’ |
| 6 | May I and my right hon. and hon. Friends join in expressing sympathy for those who died or were injured in the atrocity in County Tyrone on Friday ? |
| 7 | A copy of the initial writ requires to be served on ( 1 ) the clerk of the licensing board and ( 2 ) all parties who appeared or were represented at the hearing including the applicant if the appeal is by an objector , at the same time as the initial writ is lodged with the sheriff clerk or as soon as may be thereafter ( para. 3,5.1. 197711622 . |
| 8 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 9 | Campaign to reinstate members who resigned or were terminated during the recession.E |
| 10 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 11 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 12 | Some women worked away from home and yet in " team " with their menfolk , husbands or fathers , or were included in the " bargains " made by their husbands . |
| 13 | When Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York in 1899 , he found that around I per cent of the poor were old people , largely because most working-class people worked until they died , or were incarcerated in the workhouse . |
| 14 | Thus , about beliefs and values in science education , Michael Poole writes : In science education and in other areas of the curriculum more help needs to be given to students to enable them to discern where beliefs and values are located , how to spot where they follow from the subject matter or were imported at the beginning , what are the available options among them and what are appropriate criteria for testing their truth-claims and adjudicating between the ones on offer . |
| 15 | Studies were already available or were published with the support of , or in association with WACC , including those by Peter G Horsfield , Hugo Assman and Stewart Hoover . |
| 16 | The majority of items required on an everyday basis such as food , clothing , building materials , fuel and water , were either to be found locally or were produced on the farm . |
| 17 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 18 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 19 | The reassertion of the state/civil society opposition is documented by the fact that all of the above names either quit or were excluded from the Akademie in 1933 . |
| 20 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 21 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 22 | So far as Orientalism in particular and European knowledge of other societies in general have been concerned , historicism meant that one human history uniting humanity either culminated in or was observed from the vantage point of Europe , or the West … |
| 23 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 24 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 25 | For example , the defendant may argue that the injury was not inflicted with intent to have intercourse but occurred after consensual intercourse or was inflicted during a quarrel , after which there was a reconciliation and consensual sexual intercourse took place . |
| 26 | In a television address on Nov. 14 Serrano stated that recognition was not a " definitive agreement " and that Guatemala would maintain its 130-year territorial claim over Belize until the matter was finally resolved by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) at The Hague or was put to an arbiter . |
| 27 | considered it to be irrecoverable where the money was paid to close the transaction or was paid under a mistake of law . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets and arose or was derived from the places where those assets were when sold or licensed and remain ; all outside Hong Kong . |
| 29 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 30 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |