Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 2 | Isolated in this small square well in the deck , they were exposed to anything the elements cared to throw at them . |
| 3 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 4 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 5 | During election night itself , we were reminded of what a splendid performer Robin Day is . |
| 6 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 7 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 8 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 9 | It attracted hundreds of people who were looking for something a little bit different to eat this Christmas . |
| 10 | Farmers had suffered from both the depressing consequences of over-production and the uncertainty of what the future held for them , and ever more bewildering changes were imposed on them every year . |
| 11 | It was as if the Sechem were listening to something no one else in the room could hear . |
| 12 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 13 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 14 | In 1987 , new air quality standards for particulates were introduced in which the total suspended particulate ( TSP ) standard ( which included particles as large as 100 um ) was replaced by the PM 10 standard ( particles less than 10 um in diameter ) since small particles are considered to pose a greater threat to health than large particles . |
| 15 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 16 | Conversely , circumstances , related to proportions of national circulation , were defined in which a newspaper publisher might own one or two television stations . |
| 17 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 18 | They were not authorized to sell the goods pledged to them however perishable , which meant that many vexatious and expensive lawsuits were commenced against them every day . |
| 19 | Such control was obviously necessary if he were to develop within himself the capacity to enjoy the vastly increased range of pleasures that could be derived from his expanding emotions . |
| 20 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 21 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 22 | He had white hair and looked very nice , and soon they were waving to him every morning . |
| 23 | Three logistic regressions were conducted in which the oesophageal mucosal status was a dichotomous criterion variable . |
| 24 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 25 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 26 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 27 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 28 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 29 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 30 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |