Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The muffled words were given a seductive rhythm by the drumming of the rain . |
| 2 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 3 | Katharine cantered Benji in a smaller and smaller circle , keeping a strong outside rein so that his hind legs were marking a smaller circle and working towards a canter pirouette . |
| 4 | In addition to raw fish and squid , the baby penguins were fed a special ‘ Belfast Zoo ’ supplement containing minerals and vitamins . |
| 5 | In education , schools were given a similar opportunity to opt out of local government control . |
| 6 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 7 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 8 | When the final text of the poem was published after its author 's death , readers were given a revised version . |
| 9 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 10 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 11 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 12 | When hourly gastric outputs were compared , no significant correlation was found between NANA and lyso platelet activating factor ( r=0.08 ; p=0.6 ) , NANA , and AAGPC ( r=0.45 ; p=0.06 ) ; again , when concentrations were compared no significant correlation was found between NANA ( µg/ml ) and lyso platelet activating factor ( ng/ml ) ( r=0.4 ; p= 0.19 ) or NANA and AAGPC ( µg/ml ) ( r=0.05 ; p=0.86 ) . |
| 13 | Glycated haemoglobin and plasma electrolyte concentrations were checked every two months . |
| 14 | Serum glucose concentrations were measured every 2.5 to five minutes by the glucose oxidase method ( Beckman glucose analyser , Beckman Instruments ) . |
| 15 | So I would go down there and that 's where I got hip to Van Halen , because all the kids were playing the stupid Eruption solo every day . |
| 16 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 17 | While councils were defining the central doctrines of the faith , the Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries were bringing the conceptual equipment of antique thought and the rhetorical techniques of classical literature to its exposition and interpretation . |
| 18 | ( Indeed , the anti-vivisectionists were allowed a small but notable coup on this score : Sue Crowshaw , badly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis , made a moving speech denying scientists the right to claim they were experimenting on her behalf . ) |
| 19 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 20 | These doubts were to find a wider resonance in the twentieth century . |
| 21 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 22 | The Midland 's branches were making an average profit of less than £7,000 each , compared with almost £10,000 at Barclays , National Westminster and Lloyds . |
| 23 | Company cars were charged a double rate and — a master stroke — cars with four or more occupants were allowed in free . |
| 24 | Initially viewed with doubt , it was not long , however , before most manufacturers were following the French team 's lead and developing turbo-charged engines . |
| 25 | Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front . |
| 26 | Some of the drivers were making an obvious effort to remember to drive on the left . |
| 27 | At a special ceremony at Leeds Cathedral on the first Sunday of Lent , the Bishop said the candidates were making an important statement . |
| 28 | The subjects were fed a controlled low sulphate diet for 34 consecutive days . |
| 29 | One hour before intubation subjects were given an oral dose of ranitidine ( 300 mg ) , and acid suppression was maintained throughout the experiment by intravenous ranitidine ( 50 mg/ hour ) administered by a cannula ( Venflon size 17G ) sited in a forearm veing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 30 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |