Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So peaceful had the volcano been , in fact , that its fertile soils were extensively cultivated , vineyards flourished on favoured sunny slopes , and the people living on and around the volcano were enjoying the prosperity and security of the Roman empire at its height . |
| 2 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 3 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the antibody response to Giardia in these children and to investigate the significance of antibodies to Giardia heat shock antigen in chronic infection . |
| 4 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the dose response relationship for cholera toxin after intrajejunal administration , to develop a standardised model of intestinal secretion using an intestinal perfusion technique , and to expand our information on the action of cholera toxin on the human jejunum . |
| 5 | The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the 3849+10 kb CT mutation in Israeli CF patients and to assess the disease severity in patients with this mutation compared with that of patients who have the mutations that are known to cause severe disease . |
| 6 | Three congressional panels and the Justice Department were conducting the investigations , which opened in mid-May , and which centred on the HUD 's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Programme . |
| 7 | There were also indications that branches of physical geography were acknowledging the necessity for studies of processes in view of the way in which processes were featuring more prominently in related disciplines . |
| 8 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 9 | It was 15′ long , and the workmen in the published photograph were raising the model as an exhibit for the enquiry convened after the disaster at Beauvais in October 1930 . |
| 10 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 11 | On a much busier occasion the calls before break were to attend the home of a widowed pensioner who thought she had heard an intruder , two road accidents , a near hit-and-run accident , and to move on youths . |
| 12 | Only five hours after its shepherd-delighting glow had faded behind Richborough Castle the first eager fingers of light were fondling the clouds over Calais . |
| 13 | Only the faintest streaks of light were brightening the sky to the east , and by the time the two coolies had gone thirty or forty yards into the jungle , the overseer was lost to sight . |
| 14 | With the carriage were displayed the necessaire , and an assortment of items which has originally been retained by von Keller as souvenirs and which were eventually acquired by Madame Tussaud . |
| 15 | The boats were sparkling with the glitter of the ‘ caller ou , ’ as our fishwives call them ; and busily the men were throwing them out from among the nets into the creels , while the shore was lined by brawny-armed women clothed in waterproof aprons , who with marvellous rapidity were gutting the fish , and packing them in barrels with abundance of salt between each layer . |
| 16 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 17 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 18 | There were , of course , many very clear signs that organised religion was feeling the effects of rapid social change , and this served to reinforce the general philosophical position adopted by people such as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 19 | As this house was structurally sound the remedy was to do the work one room at a time . ’ |
| 20 | His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections , to create an illusion of space . |
| 21 | The remedy was to separate the essence of national life ( a language and a culture ) from the organization of economic activity , and embody it in a separate institution . |
| 22 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 23 | The deal was to finance the power station 's gas and steam turbines which will become operational in early 1993 . |
| 24 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 25 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 26 | Schrödinger 's original reason for putting forward this thought experiment was to demonstrate the folly , as he then believed , of the quantum theory : clearly it was ridiculous to think of a cat being neither dead nor alive — or , as an obvious corollary , both dead and alive at the same time . |
| 27 | The next phase of the experiment was to test the ability of the virus to produce immunity to the hepatitis antigen — something that the antigen on its own is not very good at . |
| 28 | The purpose of the experiment was to train the dog to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork without food being present . |
| 29 | A blunt-speaking Yorkshireman was guarding the door of the barn where the pie was cooking when these men from the ministry approached and demanded admission . |
| 30 | At that time the senior inservice adviser was to convene the meetings ( though this was soon delegated to others and " some sort of rotating role " would be devised to fill the chair . |