Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 2 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 3 | Cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh were placed in the same sort of category as non-metropolitan districts in England although they had populations larger than the more rural regions and all the island councils . |
| 4 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 5 | An adequate explanation must both make clear what an action means to the participants , and how far the same outcome would result if different people were placed in the same context . |
| 6 | Counting was slow due to the complex voting system and to the fact that separate voting papers for the three abortion referendums [ see below ] were placed in the same ballot boxes . |
| 7 | It was labelled as such by a London coroner recently , after four inquests on suicides were heard in the same court within a week . |
| 8 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 9 | Work began on two new , larger , masonry granaries , although they were situated on the same site . |
| 10 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 11 | Any nominated initials/sex identity codes which occurred more than once were treated as the same person . |
| 12 | In early computers , as mentioned above , input/output ( or transput ) operations were treated in the same way as internal operations ( such as addition ) ; once the operation had been started , the control unit awaited its completion , before continuing with the extraction , decoding , and execution of the next instruction . |
| 13 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 14 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 15 | And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been . |
| 16 | A number of new trade unions were formed in the latter part of 1989 to represent a wide range of workers . |
| 17 | In other words , two homologous structures were formed in the same way in two closely-related groups , though their development diverged , in the course of evolution , to adapt the structure for two different lifestyles . |
| 18 | The diminutive but pleasant cliffs at nearby Brassington and Harborough were formed in the same way . |
| 19 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 20 | They were joined by the former Labour MP for Leith , Ron Brown , and the Scottish National Party district councillor for the area , Ian Smith . |
| 21 | Those units were joined in the latter part of the 1980s in a rationalisation plan . |
| 22 | The two parts of the base were joined in the same way , the lower loops of the ropework being added at the same time . |
| 23 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 24 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 25 | Even the pain of finally finding out that he and Harry Martin were painted with the same filthy brush did n't hurt as much as that careless indictment . |
| 26 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 27 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 28 | The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control . |
| 29 | This indicates that the two denominations were minted in the same part of his reign . |
| 30 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |