Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 2 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 3 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 4 | It already had a well-developed product on the market , whilst its rivals were struggling to get one onto the drawing board . |
| 5 | This is a significant issue in a culture where women were taught to value themselves by their beauty . |
| 6 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 8 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 9 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 10 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 11 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 12 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 13 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 14 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 15 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 16 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 17 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 18 | The 1991 World Youth Cup , which was going to Nigeria until they were caught fielding someone over age , will now take place in Portugal . |
| 19 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 20 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 21 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 22 | By 1794 his letters were being opened by the government , who were said to regard him as ‘ the most dangerous person in the county of Somerset ’ . |
| 23 | The jury heard how Ferguson and Smillie collected two five-gallon drums of diesel from Oban railway pier on the day of the fire , 12 May last year , and were seen delivering it to Ferguson 's house . |
| 24 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 25 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
| 26 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 27 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 28 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 29 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 30 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |