Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes were placed laterally and the mouth surrounded by tiny rod-shaped plates . |
| 2 | Clouds were gathering overhead and the windscreen was spotted with rain . |
| 3 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 4 | Four more applications were received yesterday and the total of 15 is expected to increase over the next day or two . |
| 5 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 6 | When each pairing had gone through 200 moves of the game , the winnings were totalled up and the winner declared . |
| 7 | In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed . |
| 8 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 9 | After 15min on ice , the cells were pelleted again and the supernatant was stored at -80°C . |
| 10 | Intermittent periods of activity were seen thereafter but the timing , amplitude , and duration of this activity was unpredictable . |
| 11 | Stimuli were presented visually and the subjects did not speak . |
| 12 | The stimuli were presented visually and the subject responded by pressing a button if the sequence of words was meaningful . |
| 13 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 14 | On this warm , sunny evening the sliding doors were pushed back and the scent of broom drifted in , along with the cooling freshness of a sprinkler turning merrily in the centre of the geranium-filled garden . |
| 15 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 16 | Four small adenomas were missed radiologically but the importance of such lesions remains debatable and they are unlikely to contribute to substantial blood loss . |
| 17 | The film lights were turned on and the crowd briefed about their imminent deaths in the ruckled black velvet . |
| 18 | A Home Office pathologist was called and pupils at the school were turned back and the school closed after a caretaker found the body beside tennis courts at breakfast time . |
| 19 | The young men were turned out and the girls looked very pretty , some of them in microscopic skirts ! |
| 20 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 22 | Three of the dead , including two policemen , were shot overnight and the other six were gunned down by masked snipers as they made their way in a crowd of thousands of peace protesters into the city centre . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , the Bank stated that the pilots were operating successfully and the problems that were being experienced by staff could be rectified by the introduction of systems . |
| 24 | In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading . |
| 25 | Gradually , as the demobilisation began to take effect , the smaller satellite airfields were closed down and the surplus staff posted mainly to permanent stations . |
| 26 | Other and smaller breweries coming under Palatine control were closed down and the premises sold ( the proceeds helping to finance the redevelopment programmes ) . |
| 27 | The ministries of Industry , Trade and Services and of Agriculture were closed down and the two respective ministers , Ivan Pushkarov and Stanislav Dimitrov , left the Cabinet . |
| 28 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 29 | While the Chancellor was delivering his speech , prices were heading upwards and the FT-SE 100 was nearing its all-time peak of 2737.8 . |
| 30 | The police were alerted , marksmen were drafted in and the area sealed off . |