Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two systems for engineering a ‘ human ’ insulin were developed and most patients have been switched to these engineered products . |
| 2 | Labour 's weak bargaining position , combined with the speed with which new industrial centres such as the Donets basin of the Ukraine were developed and older cities such as St Petersburg expanded , ensured that little attention was given to the needs of the work-force . |
| 3 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 4 | For ages 0–14 and 15–24 age standardised rates were calculated as simple averages of the age specific rates for the five year age groups they contained . |
| 5 | Therefore the abilities of the whole intraperitoneal fluids to deconjugate PABA-UDCA disulphate were calculated as 0 mg , 0.02 mg , 3.57 mg , 0.04 mg , 10.44 mg , and 16.30 mg in the respective patients . |
| 6 | Specificity and sensitivity values were calculated and statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test for non-parametric data . |
| 7 | The courses involved 140 main methods students ( four of whom were listed as non-native speakers ) , and a further 74 subsidiary methods students were reported ( but it should be noted that some courses failed to provide numbers ) . |
| 8 | Thus , the customs or more exactly the usages , on formal markets — for example , the London Corn Trade Association , the London Stock Exchange , and the London Tallow Market — as well as those in particular trades and professions , were recognized and given effect to . |
| 9 | It is to the credit of the New Zealand breeders that these faults were recognized and several imports from the UK were made specifically to help with this problem , notably NZ Ch. |
| 10 | Casualties on the allied side were given as 343 troops killed , including 266 US forces , of whom 145 had been killed in action and 121 had died in accidents . |
| 11 | Among puppies seeking homes are six which were given as festive presents but rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 12 | Of the 1,151439 enrolments in session 1990/91 , 740,832 resulted in full success , 147,034 resulted in part success , 227,863 results were withdrawn and 35,710 results were awaited . |
| 13 | These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts . |
| 14 | The enterprise governance was achieved through a board of directors , half of whom were designated as executive directors who provided the company 's active leadership and half of whom were designated as nonexecutive ( external ) directors who fulfilled the more traditional board functions . |
| 15 | It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Twelve areas were identified and ten were designated as national parks in England and Wales between 1950 and 1955 ( Bell 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Housing options were considered , economic feasibility studies were undertaken and potential processor partners were identified . |
| 18 | By this time , Telford Avenue and Brixton Hill were regarded as one depôt for administrative purposes , they were not very far apart and were no longer shown separately in car allocation lists . |
| 19 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 20 | After a storm they were washed back in dozens , but most of them were broken or half ground to powder . |
| 21 | During the course of the four hours , twenty-four cups of coffee were consumed and any amount of light snacks . |
| 22 | No canal crossing the constantly changing contours of the English Midlands ever had enough water , so a significant increase in traffic would only be possible if existing supplies were conserved and more supplies developed . |
| 23 | Although only Nicaragua and the United States were parties to the original litigation , the United States claimed that its actions in and against Nicaragua were justified as collective self-defence of the territorial integrity and political independence of those third States , in particular of El Salvador . |
| 24 | Instead of being treated as our own ancestors , the Neanderthals of Europe and the more primitive ‘ Java man ’ were dismissed as distinct forms of pseudo-humanity , driven into marginal locations by the expansion of true humans with a more advanced level of intelligence . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs . |
| 26 | The rotors were intended as auxiliary sources of power , and , as such , to be run only in an envelope of conditions useful for their operation . |
| 27 | Indeed , the data presented here show that the formation of many tRNA-modifications were altered when certain mutations were introduced into the tRNA at a distance from the site of the modification . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the Brewery loan repayments were re-negotiated and special discounts arranged on the goods they supplied . |
| 29 | Now the pains were returning but 4 weeks after Arg Nit LM2 she was able to say that the digestive symptoms had been negligible . |
| 30 | AMERICAN restaurants and government buildings were attacked as French farmers went on the rampage in protest at the cuts agreed in the Gatt trade talks . |