Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [art] [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 | Non-members were charged a total of over £2,000 for use of library services . |
| 4 | But he argued : ‘ I do n't know why the fans were having a go at me . |
| 5 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 6 | Later in the nineteenth century , following the work of Green and of Kelvin , thermodynamic considerations were introduced a well as the concept of a strain energy function . |
| 7 | It is , for example , remarkable that almost half of all medical students are women , when as recently as 1974 medical schools were operating a quota system to keep women out . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 11 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 15 | The journalists were granted an interview with His Grace , the Bishop of Danu . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Military units were to stage a show depicting victories over counter-revolutionaries for the benefit of invited workers . |
| 18 | These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 20 | D. A. Cautions were used a lot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These Mirror 's pictures were to rock the world |
| 29 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 30 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |