Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anesthetised rats , models were developed to study the effects of intra-aortic ( ia ) serotonin on ileocolonic and colonic transit , and the effects on transit of a number of 5HT receptor antagonists . |
| 2 | Nor would it appear that these awful prophecies from her Majesty 's Chief Inspector were calculated to depress the spirits of the royal household . |
| 3 | He believed that these groups were helping to alleviate the effects of catastrophes caused by the dawning of the New Age . |
| 4 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 5 | On the contrary , it flourished within a discipline that had emerged to help the farmers who were struggling to exploit the prairies in a way that destroyed the traditional climax . |
| 6 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 7 | Local Clubs were formed to discuss the topics raised in the monthly selection . |
| 8 | Some were rinsing brooms ; some were scrubbing clean the pans they 'd used for plastering , scouring them with river silt and grass . |
| 9 | The two small cars seated only 32 inside , and it has been speculated that they were intended to draw the trailers during summer operation . |
| 10 | Further changes introduced by the 1986 Social Security Act were intended to increase the numbers who contract out of the SERP scheme . |
| 11 | In the pro-celebrity event Sir Bryan and Doctor Stevie would provide some leavening of the showbiz and TV personalities , the top sports stars and the controversial public figures who were expected to draw the crowds . |
| 12 | She was , she said , one of the last of the dinosaurs : born of Victorian parents when girls were expected to arrange the flowers and marry well . |
| 13 | We support the views of the County Planning Officers Society and the Government that the 1981 provisions have not been widely used because of ( a ) the financial implications of compensation for minerals planning authorities ( MPAs ) , ( b ) the staffing and resource implications for MPAs who were expected to implement the provisions , and ( c ) the complexity and cumbersome nature of the provisions themselves . |
| 14 | Any new hands were expected to learn the ropes from the old hands and with the small number of personnel involved together with the expertise of the ex-service officers the system worked quite satisfactorily . |
| 15 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 16 | The technique of satyāgraha was implemented also on behalf of the untouchables who were forbidden to use the roads in the vicinity of the Vykom temple in Travancore , South India . |
| 17 | Tory propagandists repeatedly alleged that the war policies of the Whigs were designed to promote the interests of the new monied men at the expense of the gentry . |
| 18 | In both schools , key individuals were observed to adopt management strategies which were designed to improve the chances of the scheme 's success . |
| 19 | Kerr LJ said that some of the public comments on Bromley v. GLC gave the misleading impression that the judgments in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords were designed to thwart the wishes of the majority on the GLC for political motives . |
| 20 | The tax reforms proposals and the liberalization of exchange regulations were designed to meet the terms of the customs union agreement with the European Communities ( EC ) signed on Oct. 19 , 1987 [ see p. 35850 ] , the basic feature of which was the gradual elimination of trade tariffs and exchange barriers . |
| 21 | Highers were designed to meet the needs of less than thirty percent of our school population , and that leaves the majority who stay on less than well-served . |
| 22 | Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven . |
| 23 | People may tense their bodies in a variety of ways to cope with the threat of strong feelings , but then as it were forget to relax the muscles after the immediate threat has passed . |
| 24 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 25 | He pointed towards the firing butts and explained to Vic Norman how the aircraft were positioned to try the guns . |
| 26 | It was first described in England , near Southampton in 1921 , birds were seen removing the tops of milk bottles and drinking the milk beneath . |
| 27 | The desire to survey the social conditions of the largest possible population proved difficult and costly , so methods were sought to reduce the costs of such surveys without , at the same time , sacrificing accuracy . |
| 28 | Contrary to statutory requirements , no ballot had been held and interim injunctions were granted requiring the unions to withdraw and cancel their instructions and take all practical steps to inform their members to desist . |
| 29 | Songs were written to celebrate the victories ; some of them were offensive and most of them were absurd . |
| 30 | In 1803 William and Dorothy visited Scotland together with Coleridge ( see p. 37 ) ; many poems were written to commemorate the experiences of this holiday . |