Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western style financial institutions , infrastructure and factory-based industry were promoted to provide the requisite economic foundations for international strength . |
| 2 | In July 1945 the boundaries of Mountbatten 's South East Asia Command were extended to include the Netherlands East Indies and the southern part of Indochina as well as the original Burma , Siam , Malaya , Singapore , and Sumatra . |
| 3 | In 1987 members of the 308 Club Sub Aqua Association were trying to locate the wreck of the Caducius , a composite sailing barque , which was iron framed , with timber decking and hull , and sheathed in brass or copper to prevent worm damage . |
| 4 | The behaviour of laminin and clinical and laboratory data in 83 patients with cirrhosis were studied to find the factors associated with increases in this glycoprotein . |
| 5 | The futures price changes used in this study were argued to precede the spot price changes by roughly one minute , although this has been disputed ( Gordon , Moriarty and Tosini , 1987 , and Herbst and Maberly , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The West Midlands Force were instructed to investigate the South Yorkshire Police , ironically , at a time when their own Serious Crimes Squad was the subject of an investigation . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it is argued by some commentators that , if an attempt were made to trace the redistributive consequences of other types of government policy , e.g. subsidies that are part of industrial policy , then an already very fuzzy picture would become totally confused . |
| 8 | The Senate had approved the bill on Feb. 25 by 59 votes to 39 , eight less that the two-thirds majority which would be required if an attempt were made to override the presidential veto . |
| 9 | The forces of fascist barbarism were threatening to engulf the civilised world . |
| 10 | The college were going to try the issue before a pr private almost secret little disciplinary committee containing academics and students . |
| 11 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 12 | The Prelude was meant to illustrate the growth of his own mind , so as to show his fitness for such a project . |
| 13 | In treatment by similars the remedy was used to stimulate the body 's own healing powers ( the vis medicatrix naturae or healing force of nature ) thus strengthening the body , the soil . |
| 14 | Hence the Springfield Air Racing Association was formed to finance the building of the Model Z ‘ Super Sportster ’ . |
| 15 | And the new Italian thinking was beginning to affect the sects themselves . |
| 16 | Meanwhile American aid was needed to ease the dollar famine , and to sustain Britain 's commitment to multilateral trade . |
| 17 | The Brigade was designed to assist the civilian commission to coax people to surrender weapons , possibly in return for money payments . |
| 18 | The above experiment was extended to determine the sequence of both subunits essential for this interaction as described in the Materials and Methods . |
| 19 | And the value of the information students find is guaranteed ; experienced teachers of business English were involved closely in researching , devising the format , and writing the dictionary , and a professional adviser was used to check the technical accuracy of all the information on business and finance . |
| 20 | This approach was mirrored in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 on the Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1983 ) where a recommendation was made to abolish the automatic classification of statutory implied terms as conditions , the buyer in a consumer sale being given the right to reject for any breach of the implied terms unless the consequences and nature of the breach were trivial so that rejection would be unreasonable . |
| 21 | The President was requested to take the chain to a jeweller when it was convenient to do so . |
| 22 | In the second investigation , a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document . |
| 23 | Their ineffective-looking trainer was trying to stop the owners from straightening the number cloth , tidying the forelock over the headband , tweaking at the saddle and shoving their big rosettes with every ill-judged movement near the horse 's affronted nostrils . |
| 24 | Yesterday David McGibbon , Grampian Holding 's group finance director , said that the closure was designed to make the company more efficient in the face of European competition . |
| 25 | Past experience of losses of the same nature as a current loss was found to reduce the person 's capacity to deal with the current loss . |
| 26 | This increased revenue was needed to meet the dramatic costs of assisting the war effort [ see below ] and of financing vastly increased domestic defence spending , including arms purchases from the United States to the value of US$6,750 million , approved in November by the US Congress . |
| 27 | We dismounted , One soldier was ordered to guard the horses whilst another , a lean whippet of a man with leathery skin and sea-blue eyes , was beckoned over by Mandeville . |
| 28 | Racking was used to store the goods both on the warehouse floor and on the platform and was bolted to supports for safety . |
| 29 | Homes Assured , went bust owing £10 million , and is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office ; a Friends Provident agent was caught using the FP logo on documents offering unsecured commercial loans , and is being investigated by fraud squad detectives ; and last December a Guardian Royal Exchange agent , Charmworth Properties , collapsed . |
| 30 | Her mind was struggling to verbalise the emotions running riot inside her , but before she could complete the sentence she felt his lips on hers , hard and demanding . |