Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 2 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 3 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 4 | The maximum value found was 850 g/t U within a 15 m intersection . |
| 5 | The first place that we visited was Nui Lenh forest reserve , one kilometre north of the Ben Hai river . |
| 6 | He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts . |
| 7 | As far as they were concerned , what happened was that wage bargaining was no longer restrained by the social and political forces that hitherto limited rises to figures that would not disrupt the economy . |
| 8 | In the study area what actually happened was that food crops were displaced from the head to the end of the fertilizer rotation in more than half the cases . |
| 9 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 10 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 11 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |
| 12 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 13 | One of those who signed was three-year-old Robert Lynch , of Darndale , who is two months younger than Johnathan Ball . |
| 14 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 15 | Among the 21 people named were Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Kenya 's first Vice-President ( his son Raila Odinga was among six dissident intellectuals who were detained on July 5 ) ; another former Vice-President Josephat Karanja , who had been forced to resign in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] ; the writer Ngugi wa Thiongo ; an Anglican bishop , the Rev. Henry Okullu , who three days previously had called upon the government to resign ; and a lawyer , Gibson Kamau Kuria , who had earlier compared Moi with the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 16 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 17 | All that we required was United Nations approval for the legality of our action . |
| 18 | The differences in history , theology and practices , combined with historic jealousies and denominational structures which prospered as membership grew were enormous stumbling blocks . |
| 19 | The best you saw were third-hand Morris Minors or — as we called them — Wogmobiles , Mark Two Zodiacs or Zephyrs with every conceivable extra . |
| 20 | All I thought was that health monitor basically follows it but it just needs a , a little bit of clarification so that everybody knows exactly when forms are supposed to be produced . |
| 21 | Every little noise we thought was another assault wave of killer mice . |
| 22 | What he really meant was that Tower Foin exercised a perennial attraction , drawing people by its beauty and its majesty , but he could n't say all that . |
| 23 | Well what I saw was some tail lights going along the road . |
| 24 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 25 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 26 | To do what I did was good business sense . ’ |
| 27 | ( Classics Illustrated were comic book versions of great literature : David Copperfield , for example , condensed to 80 pages of finely drawn comic strip . ) |
| 28 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 29 | And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories . |
| 30 | And this was the one opportunity and all you got was one pervert ringing you up . |