Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the guidelines were introduced the referral rate from general practitioners for examinations covered by the guidelines was 88.4/1000 registered patients ( table I ) . |
| 2 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 3 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 4 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 6 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 7 | Under the 1980 Social Security Act this system was maintained but local offices were given the discretion to pay in full the charges made by private and voluntary residential homes . |
| 8 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 9 | Since the last World War , soldiering , as a profession , had lost its romantic appeal , but in Vietnam the journalists were given the chance of acting out fantasies about themselves , war , love and death . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 11 | The RF Defence and Foreign Ministries were to negotiate the status of troops on Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states ' territories not forming part of those states ' armed forces or of the CIS strategic forces . |
| 12 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 13 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 14 | At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point . |
| 15 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 16 | As the rain beat a dull rhythm on Milan 's sludge-coloured buildings this spring , Italian designers were proclaiming the return of brilliant colour behind the facades of the word 's most industrial fashion capital . |
| 17 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 18 | These Mirror 's pictures were to rock the world |
| 19 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 20 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |
| 21 | In the first week of the campaign only 5 per cent of television 's election news focused on defence , only 3 per cent of the electorate thought the parties were stressing the issue , and only 3 per cent wished them to do so . |
| 22 | They , therefore , introduced a third condition in which subjects were given the title of the passage after having read it . |
| 23 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 24 | Hector 's head turned as if his eyes were seeking the abbot . |
| 25 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 26 | Up three floors in the elevator , and away down the long corridor that was chaos because the electricians were rewiring the floor , and on to the security gate into Bureau territory . |
| 27 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 28 | By December 1321 the king was touring the country ostensibly ‘ to restore order ’ — while Lancaster and the Marchers were demanding the abandonment of favourites by the king . |
| 29 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 30 | Before the sea-walls were built the place must have been a true sea-marsh , largely flooded whenever there was a particularly high tide , with islands of sandy soil bound by the tussocky marram grass defeating the sea here and there . |