Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To land a large , lightly armed force was dodging the realities of amphibious warfare when the difficulty of landing supporting weapons must be faced squarely . |
| 4 | The result was to draw the boundaries of certain knowledge much more narrowly than before . |
| 5 | While we were outside , the duty Corporal was doing the rounds of the barrack rooms , checking for cleanliness and tidiness ; every two or three minutes a pair of boots would sail out of the window , or there would be the sound of a locker crashing to the floor . |
| 6 | Beside him , a soldier was turning the controls of a small army radio . |
| 7 | The digger was wounding the tubers sufficiently to allow infection . |
| 8 | We need to add at least that if the flipping caused the wipers to start to work , then if the switch was flipped the wipers started to work . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC Updates 23 and 26 , on the Quality Framework , stated that one of the intentions of the Quality Development Programme was to harmonise the criteria for quality assurance of SCOTVEC awards wherever possible . |
| 10 | The aim of this programme was to mitigate the effects of the trade blockade with India [ see also below ] which had resulted in energy shortages , increased import costs and a slowdown in revenue collection . |
| 11 | The primary objective of our study was to compare the changes in microalbuminuria resulting from long term sodium depletion induced by hydrochlorotiazide with those resulting from inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system . |
| 12 | The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of supplemental oxygen both during and after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |
| 13 | Thus , the objective of the present study was to investigate the effects of acarbose and miglitol on mouth to caecum transit time ( MCTT ) . |
| 14 | The aim of the present study was to determine the concentrations of tissue type plasminogen activator and urokinase type plasminogen activator in carcinomas along the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract using endoscopical biopsies . |
| 15 | Each practice was given the results of the study for all their participating patients after the study had been completed in that practice . |
| 16 | If the original intention was to make the Greeks feel embarrassed at asking for their marbles back , the calls for their return may grow more strident if the laboratory folds up altogether . |
| 17 | Mr Nicholson said his intention was to make the pupils realise that he could not be shocked . |
| 18 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 19 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 20 | SRU secretary , Bill Hogg , told a press briefing in Edinburgh yesterday that with the west stand out of use due to the redevelopment at Murrayfield , the intention was to host the fixtures involving Scotland A and the Scotland development XV at club grounds with the largest capacities . |
| 21 | The intention was to uncover the causes of human social behaviour , often with a view to influencing social policy in order to reduce social problems and generally improve the quality of life . |
| 22 | The intention was to distribute the men of the BNA ( now called patriot Burmese Forces : PBF ) as individuals among the new battalions . |
| 23 | His original intention was to have the walls constructed out of fibre glass , but costs proved prohibitive and so they were made from wood with vacuum-formed PVC roundels used for the indents . |
| 24 | PC Whitehouse , 24 , had felt the car was allowing the police car to draw close . |
| 25 | My job as local organizer was going the bakeries collecting the dues where there was no collector and dealing with complaints . |
| 26 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 27 | But his great ambition was to discover the remains of the famous Temple of Artemis ( or Diana ) at Ephesus , south of Smyrna , which had completely disappeared from sight in the middle ages . |
| 28 | Not so long ago the Labour was singing the praises of the trade union movement , especially the G M B , yet , only last night on T V a Shadow Minister , David said the G M B were wrong in what they were doing , they should be behind John Smith . |
| 29 | Light was flooding the monitors as the curtains rose . |
| 30 | But that apart , the main aim of the term was to give the students confidence that they could plan and teach a lesson at any point in the five year course . |