Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 10 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |
| 11 | They , therefore , introduced a third condition in which subjects were given the title of the passage after having read it . |
| 12 | ( 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 . ) |
| 13 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No one could be sure and the shapes were given the non-committal name of stromatolite , a word derived from Greek meaning no more than " stony carpet " . |
| 17 | The project was so successful that the youngsters were awarded the school 's own annual Steelite Enterprise Trophy . |
| 18 | Parents were given the option of having their male infants screened for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in addition to the routine tests for phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism . |
| 19 | From a modest start five years ago when 30,000 tonnes were handled the business has grown to 400,000 tonnes per annum . |
| 20 | Visitors were given the opportunity to ‘ Try-a-Sport ’ which included activities such as canoeing , croquet , weights , aerobics and trampolining . |
| 21 | Blacks were given the edge in only 7% of cases . |
| 22 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
| 23 | Until these two menaces were eradicated the centre , anchored on Fort Douaumont , would stand still . |
| 24 | ‘ Railway enthusiasts were given the chance to take pictures of the loco during the weekend and that was very popular . ’ |
| 25 | In an agreement signed with Amazonian gold prospectors on Jan. 9 , 1990 , under the auspices of the National Security Council , miners were granted the right to continue prospecting in three areas totalling about 686 sq km , and at the same time the reduction of the size of the Yanomami Indian reservation to 19 separate " islands " of forest was confirmed . |
| 26 | With betting banned , the punters were given the chance of a flutter by purchasing a prize draw ticket for each race . |
| 27 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 28 | Magistrates and judges were given the power to release upon probation for good conduct first offenders who had committed an offence not punishable by more than three years imprisonment . |
| 29 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 30 | It was then that the signal fire was lit which Allen watched from his tree-top. from end to end of the forest smoke rose in response , and when to east , to west , to south , and north the signal stations were assembled the message went out from the outlaws ' camp : ‘ The Cage is Open . ’ |