Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of this were given in Part 1 . |
| 2 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 3 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 4 | Many were small and few were engaged in manufacturing . |
| 5 | Some were written in caligraphy , another with a child 's stencil set . |
| 6 | Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods . |
| 7 | My father trained his dogs to be obedient and some were trained as gun dogs . |
| 8 | Some were whipped up with egg whites , lemon peel , and extra cream , some were served with raspberry , strawberry , redcurrant , apple , quince or medlar jelly . |
| 9 | The double-axe was an everyday implement , and yet the great majority of those that survive were intended for ritual use ; some were made of very thin sheet bronze , some were very large , some were very small , some were made of lead or of soft stone . |
| 10 | Some were transported by lorry , others were walked by their owners for distances up to twenty miles , through Stornoway and then south to the centre of the island . |
| 11 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 12 | Some were sprinkled with pine needles , having just been engaged in decking out the hall with fresh sprays of evergreen . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the NSF-controlled radio and television services had been calling its supporters to come to the square ; some were brought by lorry , and by mid-evening they had forced the anti-NSF demonstrators , now outnumbered , to retreat from the Square . |
| 14 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 15 | But its understood some were hurt in training , others targeted by the IRA . |
| 16 | ‘ some were put in jail for two to three years . |
| 17 | Some were changed to oil but even in the 1950's the question was strongly debated as many thought they should continue to burn the fuel they carried . |
| 18 | An agreement was finally reached , only hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year , but this was defeated in Congress on Oct. 5 . |
| 19 | Thirty eight of the 43 patients had 24 hour oesophageal pH monitoring before treatment and this was repeated after healing ( while on omeprazole ) in 31 of them . |
| 20 | This was repeated in triplicate and samples were analysed for metal ions by ICPES . |
| 21 | Under the agreement News Corporation was permitted to borrow a further US$600 million on condition that this was repaid as part of a US$800 million reduction in its debt burden by February 1992 . |
| 22 | An extreme example of this was discovered by community workers in Paisley : |
| 23 | This was replaced in turn by the immense station built on reclaimed land in the late 1920s and opened in 1930 . |
| 24 | Even horse clippers were powered by this system , but this was replaced by mains electricity . |
| 25 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 26 | This was recognized by parliament in 1944 ( Dent , 1944 ) but was largely forgotten for two decades as subsequent Secretaries of State avoided its use ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , Davis 1980 ; Salter and Tapper , 1981 ; Raggatt and Weiner , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | This was written in machine code . |
| 28 | Since this was written in pencil , why did n't Richard erase it ? |
| 29 | To her biographer , the meaning of all this was revealed over time and finally clarified by the letters to Ellen Doubleday . |
| 30 | Although the judgment of how well a film shows what normally happens at a junction was used differently in Study 3 and in Groeger and Chapman ( 1992 , in preparation a ) there was no evidence in either case that this was related to recognition sensitivity . |