Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives were manning special hotline phones after a tape was broadcast on BBC 1 's Crimewatch UK in the hope that someone may recognise Britain 's most wanted man . |
| 2 | Four years ago Pepsi and Shirlie were enjoying considerable chart success and media attention . |
| 3 | Routine patrols were producing regular revenue seizures , mostly of tobacco goods and spirits as a result of interceptions of yachts , fishing vessels and rummages of merchant ships within the various ports visited . |
| 4 | This meant that wages fell sharply in the coal exporting districts of South Wales and the North East but remained the same in the new and expanding south Yorkshire coalfield , where new and deeper mines were producing high quality coal for the home market . |
| 5 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 6 | All patients were advised to achieve a daily intake of at least 700 mg of calcium ; five patients were unable to take sufficient dairy products to sustain this and were given oral calcium supplements . |
| 7 | Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds . |
| 8 | In the rest of Britain , men and women were given equal voting rights in 1928 . |
| 9 | Four black special police constables were given 15-year prison terms . |
| 10 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman knows that those on income support were given increased income support to enable them to pay their 20 per cent . |
| 12 | At the Marquis , where non-management staff are known as associates , all 1800 employees were given half day seminars on TQM1 : Empowerment . |
| 13 | Ten per cent received life imprisonment , 15 per cent were given determinate prison sentences of between four and ten years , 10 per cent were given prison sentences below four years , and 15 per cent were given probation orders ( with or without a condition of psychiatric treatment ) . |
| 14 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 15 | In these studies subjects watched films of actual driving situations in a simulator and were given subsequent recognition tests . |
| 16 | For instance , rats were given novel saccharin solution and 1 5 min later were given novel vinegar solution , and finally they were made ill with lithium chloride . |
| 17 | For instance , rats were given novel saccharin solution and 1 5 min later were given novel vinegar solution , and finally they were made ill with lithium chloride . |
| 18 | Eight accomplices were given lesser prison sentences as were eight others who were condemned in absentia . |
| 19 | In 1989 the Broads were given National Park status . |
| 20 | In 1988 , they were given National Park status by a special Act of Parliament . |
| 21 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 22 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 23 | Eight patients were studied in detail and were given supervised exercise therapy . |
| 24 | ‘ We were given special safety rules — fire precautions — no smoking — all that . |
| 25 | Given a relatively lenient sentence of 18 years ( Jiang Qing and others were given suspended death sentences ) , Chen was later released from jail ‘ in consideration of age and poor health ’ . |
| 26 | They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage . |
| 27 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 28 | By the next day , flood warning computers built into the river banks along the 120 miles of the Tay were flashing yellow warning signals as placid tributaries dumped their overload into the river . |
| 29 | Two of the eight project schools in Wales were English medium , two were designated Welsh medium schools in mainly anglicized areas , and four served bilingual catchments and provided varying degrees of Welsh medium provision . |
| 30 | You might expect to find a house like this in some refined seaside resort such as Budleigh Salterton or Sidmouth , where , owing to the wars and consequent lack of foreign travel , the nobility and even a Royal or two were building elaborate holiday houses . |