Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers agreed to open projects to the Soviet Union and Japan for collaboration and were expected to meet in late 1992 to review the situation . |
| 2 | The metal shutters on the windows and behind the doors of the four-storey grey structure were designed to keep out unnecessary callers . |
| 3 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |
| 4 | The proceeds , together with capital earned from trading , were used to wipe out net borrowings of £13.8m , the equivalent of 17% gearing . |
| 5 | The court heard that forged American Express and Visa Gold cards were used to run up huge bills at the restaurants . |
| 6 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 7 | The children were asked to carry out various tasks , such as choosing the marble which made Jack jump and explaining their choices . |
| 8 | ( p. 253 ) Instead , the major complaint is that they were forced to give up political activity after the struggle . |
| 9 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 10 | Jewellery replied quickly and Amison and Plant were forced to take on extra defensive duties while at the other end , captain Tony Elkin , brother Kevin and Paul Moran were well in control for Barlaston . |
| 11 | The Saints were forced to carry out sweeping changes to their site , including a new stand , entrance , steps from the dressing room and floodlights . |
| 12 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 13 | Baker was busier than Ironside although both goalkeepers were forced to bring off vital saves . |
| 14 | It was because of this denial of the importance of lesbians and lesbian strength within the organization ( by lesbians as much as heterosexual women ) that heterosexual women were encouraged to take over key positions . |
| 15 | He said it was time crack SAS troops were deployed to take out leading members of the IRA . |
| 16 | Although desiring a diplomatic posting to Venice , Mackenzie was recalled to take over Scottish affairs from Sir Gilbert Elliot , third baronet [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 18 | This was designed to build up English exports , to encourage English shipping and increase England 's share of the carrying trade , of which the Dutch had the lion 's share at that time . |
| 19 | On Dec. 4 , in an agreement which was expected to open up new lines of credit to Argentina , Brady reached an agreement with Economy Minister Antonio Ermán González to refinance US$650,000,000 of debt with the US Eximbank and US$50,000,000 of debt with the International Development Association ( IDA ) , the concessionary loan affiliate of the World Bank , for repayment over 10 years , with a six-year grace period . |
| 20 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |
| 21 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 22 | That , he reflected , was what happened when the Navy was persuaded to hand over operational as well as administrative control of a ship to a pack of civilians . |
| 23 | That Bukharin was preparing for a struggle with Stalin at this point can not be doubted and he was attempting to drum up international support among other parties of the Comintern . |
| 24 | An Institute of Agrarian Reform was founded to break up large estates and redistribute them to landless labourers . |
| 25 | Labour was born to bring about social justice and change . |
| 26 | Desire was easy to slam the door on , but emotions were a very different matter , and her fear was beginning to take on new dimensions as she realised Damian Flint threatened her heart even more than he threatened her body . |
| 27 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 28 | Warren pointed out that for the first time Britain was aiming to carry out speculative research . |
| 29 | SAEF ( SEAQ Automatic Execution Facility ) was introduced to speed up small orders in well known shares in 1989 . |
| 30 | However , in 1851 his health again gave cause for serious anxiety and he was compelled to give up full-time activity at the early age of forty-two . |