Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded . |
| 2 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 3 | The cupboards were stacked with discarded baby clothing , receipts for adverts in London and suburban newspapers , anxious letters and telegrams from worried mothers , in fact virtually everything to give the thankful Detective Inspector a watertight case . |
| 4 | Later , shoe-shapes were traced on black card . |
| 5 | Bull and bear baiting have gone , but we are left with remnants of former use in such breeds as bulldogs , whose exaggerated lower jaws were developed through selective breeding , to hang onto the muzzles of bulls . |
| 6 | As more and more uses were found for computers in business and commerce , as well as in science and engineering , even easier languages were developed for lay use . |
| 7 | For an answer we will need to look elsewhere : at the theories of conversational principles and speech acts , ideas which , as their names suggest , were developed with spoken language in mind , but are as applicable to written discourse as to spoken . |
| 8 | The plates were developed with high performance thin layer chromatography and read with a scanner densitometer ( Shimadzu CS 920 ) . |
| 9 | The trees were developed by Spanish engineer Antonio Ibanez , who claims to have interested an Italian multinational plus the French and more than one Arab government in his invention . |
| 10 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 11 | With the resurgence of the neo-classical architectural style in Victorian times most imposing buildings were erected with great attention to Greco-Roman columns and low , wide vaulted roofs . |
| 12 | Of course we were fascinated by revolting food , and liked inventing horror meals . |
| 13 | Recurrence rates were calculated by lifetable analysis ( LTA ) and compared by the log rank test . |
| 14 | Age adjusted rates were calculated by direct standardisation with the total sample as the standard . |
| 15 | Age standardised incidence figures were calculated by direct standardisation , using as reference the world standard population . |
| 16 | On July 20 the former mayor of East Berlin , Eberhard Krack , and 12 associates were indicted for electoral fraud . |
| 17 | Last week the trolley ladies involved in the ‘ ciggie sale ’ were reprimanded by embarrassed hospital officials . |
| 18 | These were emphasized by strategic tree planting or the placement of some other strong vertical element at the pinch point , thus reinforcing the narrowness of the road by creating a gateway . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind the threatened penalties to be imposed by the Registrar of Companies for late filing of accounts , meetings were arranged for formal approval of the financial statements by both the directors and members on 28 July 1992 , and I emphasised to my client the need to lodge a copy of the accounts with the Registrar by the end of July . |
| 20 | In our silver and white table setting , the floral centrepieces were arranged in fluted loaf tins . |
| 21 | They were remanded on conditional bail . |
| 22 | All three were remanded on conditional bail . |
| 23 | They were remanded on unconditional bail until June 24 for a pre-trial review . |
| 24 | Both were remanded into local authority care until 3 March , when they are to appear again . |
| 25 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 26 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 27 | Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect ! |
| 28 | Relative contributions of reduced glomerular filtration rate , increased tubular reabsorption , and increased bone resorption to the total component of hypercalcaemia were calcualted by urinary calcium excretion estimations by the method of Nordin . |
| 29 | They were inundated with good luck cards and bunches of flowers from fellow market traders and long-time customers . |
| 30 | Referring to the concessions the Danes negotiated in Edinburgh under Britain 's presidency of the European Community , he said : ‘ The Edinburgh concessions were binding in international law , but have no value in Community law , and Community law overrides international law . |