Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standard deviation scores ( SDS ) for height at diagnosis and at ultimate follow up were calculated according to the equation : |
| 2 | By April the single Virgin Rose would be in flower and others were listed to bloom throughout the following five months . |
| 3 | We were bring led through the sacristy at school on our way to the chapel . |
| 4 | The extent to which management powers over generation were devolved depended on the central triumvirate of Citrine , Self and Hacking , and not on a statutorily entrenched position . |
| 5 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 6 | The footsteps which were heard passing in the alleyway were of men walking not running in panic . |
| 7 | Weeks later , when the mourning for her had already begun , chimpanzees were heard calling near the village . |
| 8 | Desmond Fairchild and Dotty Blundell were heard arguing in the corridor , though no one could be sure what was at issue . |
| 9 | Footsteps were heard coming up the steps , but no one ever appeared at the top of the steps . |
| 10 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 11 | The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 12 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 13 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 14 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 15 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 16 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 17 | Patients in the heater probe group were treated according to the endoscopic procedure . |
| 18 | Accordingly , many of the programs in use prior to the introduction of the database were amended to run against the new datafiles . |
| 19 | Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials . |
| 20 | If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) . |
| 21 | Normally after offering their silent prayers all three children were dismissed to play in the garden and were not recalled until the offertory food was removed from the altar at the end of the ceremony and eaten along with other dishes at a festive family supper . |
| 22 | In the following days , many dazibao were posted complaining about the low-quality , high-priced canteen food as well as the reinstitution of physical exercise . |
| 23 | While both officers were intended to act on the Crown 's behalf at Ludlow , the Attorney seems to have had the task of conducting cases in court , the Solicitor of supervising their preparation . |
| 24 | They were intended to compete with the vans that circulate the scheme . |
| 25 | And in between were ranged a number of additional hopes and objectives all of which were intended to contribute toward the creation of the ideal citizen . |
| 26 | Furthermore as nationalised industries were intended to operate in the ‘ national interest ’ , it was claimed that this should lead to improved industrial relations , as the strife between labour and capital , associated with capitalist ownership , was reduced . |
| 27 | Here again the old north to south and east to west through-roads were diverted to pass through the new market place , so producing the dangerous corners which still exist in the town today . |
| 28 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 29 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 30 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |