Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 2 | If anything , he was more bookish and intellectual than many of his fellow-students who were pursuing with success the required courses of study . |
| 3 | To us the white sands of Tanakeke looked inviting , but our crew were filled with apprehension the closer we got . |
| 4 | Its president , Charles Gray , said there was no justification for removing regulatory functions from district and island councils which were committed to tightening-up the control regime . |
| 5 | Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories . |
| 6 | Twenty-three different awards were presented by HRH The Duke of Gloucester to practical preservationists across the country , including British Rail , private railways and groups , and even two private home owners ! |
| 7 | End expiratory breath samples were collected in dulplicate every day at 800 am , 300 pm , and 1000 pm using a collapsible tube with an open end as previously described . |
| 8 | Attempts were made to measure the relative contribution to the overall metabolism of mucosa , lamina propria , and muscularis layers . |
| 9 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 10 | WE WERE shown on TV the joy of a young couple moving into their new home after just beating the Stamp Duty deadline . |
| 11 | The lines were opened for service the next day , 12 April , from the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ , along Penge High Street to the Thicket Road terminus and from the ‘ Robin Hood ’ to Low Level Station . |
| 12 | Skins and skeletons of mammals , from the giant kangaroo to the tiny kangaroo rat , were hauled on board the groaning bullock carts to join the piles of feathered carcases already stacked away as part of Gould 's mammoth collection . |
| 13 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 14 | Today they were going to replaster the whole house : floors , ceilings , walls — inside and out . |
| 15 | ‘ She was at that cocktail party the Sheldonians gave — do n't you remember ? — when we were staying with Mother the summer before last . ’ |
| 16 | By October there were upwards of 30 written death threats and the same warnings were coming by phone every week . |
| 17 | Would we believe someone who said they were viewing with enthusiasm the prospect of being 85 ? |
| 18 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 19 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 20 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent were represented by Captain the Honourable Christopher Knollys at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock which was held in the Guards Chapel , today . |
| 21 | Gall bladder images were taken in duplicate every 15 minutes at -60 , -45 , -30 , -15 , 0 , 15 , 30 , 45 , 60 , 75 , and 90 minutes . |
| 22 | What was this because you were standing in water a lot ? |
| 23 | They were putting into action the words of Sir Gordon Borrie : |
| 24 | It is as if Sukenick were putting into practice the principles of what he has called the ‘ architectonic novel ’ which ( and he cites Raymond Federman 's Double or Nothing as a prime example ) works like a jigsaw puzzle : ‘ the picture is filled out but there is no sense of development involved ’ ( Federman 1975 : 38 ) . |
| 25 | The Burrows family were putting into practice the Army policy of " itinerants for God " . |
| 26 | It was after the tour that Take That-mania reached fever pitch and the band were forced to employer a minder — Gerry — to make sure they do n't get into any sticky situations . |
| 27 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 28 | We were watching in case the Tans would try to infiltrate the lakes at night . |
| 29 | It joined the various Curtiss Robins , de Havilland Moths , Fairchilds , Bellancas , Fokker Super Universals and Lockheed Electras , which all were engaged in opening-up the countryside . |
| 30 | A contrasting case is Watson [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 865 ( CA ) : the jury were to take into account the knowledge of the victim 's age and ( frail ) condition which he had acquired after he had broken into her house . |