Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 2 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 3 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 4 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 5 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 6 | The rootstocks were developed at government research stations and are still known by their reference numbers . |
| 7 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 8 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 9 | Over two thousand Bailey bridges were erected in north-west Europe between June 1944 and May 1945 and the design was also used extensively in Italy and the Far East . |
| 10 | Percentages of identity and similarity between proteins in the multiple alignments were calculated with program DISTANCES ( 22 ) . |
| 11 | Accordingly , difference and Sim-weighted Fourier maps phased from the protein model were calculated at 20–4Å resolution , and inspected using the computer graphics program FRODO . |
| 12 | The solid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated by exponential interpolation with as many surrounding points as appropriate . |
| 13 | Five police officers in New York City were indicted on murder charges in March , following the death of a 21-year-old Hispanic man on Feb. 5 . |
| 14 | But the majority of classes were arranged at District branches and the statistics are considered representative of the proportion of occupational groups within the District . |
| 15 | A competition with a Hebridean holiday as a prize was run in conjunction with the exhibition , a more specialized competition for schools was organized with support from the Royal Bank of Scotland , and private views were arranged for specialist bodies and organizations . |
| 16 | The training programmes that were available were arranged by government departments and took various forms : basic courses over nine or ten evenings ; one-day conferences on government information regarding grants , subsidies , etc. ; conferences on plant protection and disease control , field studies and some practical courses . |
| 17 | IT 'S strange but true : the earliest ancestors of the video camcorder are to be found in holes deep below ground which were inhabited by cave dwellers long before the dawn of recorded history . |
| 18 | Later , in Victorian times , birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers , by taxidermists and by egg collectors . |
| 19 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 20 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 21 | Third , his anxieties about homosexuality were conjoined with class antagonism . |
| 22 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 23 | Under the legislation of the nineteenth century tithes were commuted into tithe rentcharge , an annual sum varying with the price of corn . |
| 24 | The final format of the grammar questions and the balance of language items tested were completed after computer analysis of extensive data from a rich sample of nationalities . |
| 25 | These were checked by strain gauge measurements and by making high speed films of selected golfers during the swing . |
| 26 | Crystal cleanliness and crystallinity were checked by Auger electron spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction , respectively . |
| 27 | Shrimp cultivation , an important source of foreign exchange , was washed away and vast quantities of fuel stored at the oil refinery in Chittagong were contaminated by sea water . |
| 28 | A number of the cast including Julie Goodyear were delayed in traffic jams . |
| 29 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |
| 30 | His new innovation won approval and orders for the first 10 tankers were placed with NE ship builders . |