Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russia 's first radio station for Orthodox believers was inaugurated this week . |
| 2 | A Horsewatch scheme to protect animals was started last week . |
| 3 | The long history of contempt for the Poles fostered by the Prussians was given greater depth when , as a result of German defeat in 1918 , Poland — against all the odds — was revived . |
| 4 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 5 | As for the future of schools themselves , one effect of a report requiring a massive expenditure of public funds was to turn political attention ( by those to the right of centre ) away from threatening plans for universal social security towards the milder , and less expensive , alternative of educational reform . |
| 6 | A note on research in polytechnics was to have considerable significance in the history of the polytechnics . |
| 7 | None of the subjects was taking any medication . |
| 8 | The potential numbers of relationships was stated many years ago ( Graicunas , 1933 ) as where R = the number of relationships and n = the number of subordinates . |
| 9 | A campaign to encourage council tenants and people on the waiting list to buy the low-cost homes was launched last October . |
| 10 | One real concern of reformers was to prevent social disorder disrupting the efficient working of the country . |
| 11 | Now , to political and economic repression in these areas was added cultural suppression . |
| 12 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 13 | The idea for an exhibition of such size around 250 exhibits from seven European countries was devised some years ago by the Dutch silver specialist Mrs A. Krekel-Aalberse with R. J. Willink of the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts and Dr J. ter Molen of the Boymans . |
| 14 | The main purpose of the two visits was to expand economic co-operation and trade between Czechoslovakia and the two Asian countries . |
| 15 | Ironically the incident comes on the same day a new motor project for youngsters was launched two miles away in Horspath by motor racing star … |
| 16 | A LAST-DITCH bid to shave £5 off council tax bills was defeated last night . |
| 17 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 18 | The alleged mortgage rescue scheme about which the hon. Gentleman boasts was described this morning by an independent commentator as ’ a policy made in an Enid Blyton story book ’ — |
| 19 | The dharmashala in which the doctor — Guruji , as he is commonly and respectfully known — works and lives was constructed many years ago by some pious rich people as an inn to provide poor travellers and pilgrims with shelter . |
| 20 | In October 1989 the rouble for personal transactions was devalued 10 times , primarily to discourage visitors from changing money on the black market ( where one US dollar could buy 15 roubles or more ) . |
| 21 | Their senior officer , Lieutenant-Commander Norman Teacher RN , was only thirty years old and one of COPPs ' greatest difficulties in the early days was persuading senior command staffs to listen to the young navigators . |
| 22 | The second function of the knowledge workers was to process operational data to produce strategic information ; this information then enabled board-level decision-making to achieve long-term strategic control . |
| 23 | The crêpey skin of her old cheeks was flying two spots of colour . |
| 24 | Again this film led to boycotts and demonstrations and seemed to confirm that to make propaganda films was to invite box-office coolness and critical hostility . |
| 25 | Where Dionysiac music expresses truth on a universal and metaphysical scale and engenders myth as the instance of that truth , the aim of the New Dithyrambic composers was to imitate particular phenomena ( natural or human ) in the manner of a tone-painting . |
| 26 | Häagen-Dazs was named new product of the year , with particular mention for its mould-breaking press ads through Bartle Bogle Hegarty . |
| 27 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 28 | I had two people working for me then , and basically what we did for two years was to do this type of work on unbelievable amounts of equipment . |
| 29 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 30 | A LATE British bid to host the World Chess Championships was announced last night . |