Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact only two liaison groups in England met regularly from the beginning of 1985 ; from September 1985 meetings were arranged twice a term for these two groups . |
| 2 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 3 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |
| 4 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 5 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 6 | The ban was imposed in 1987 , when it was found that up to 4,000 swans were wasting away every year because of lead poisoning caused by swallowing discarded weights . |
| 7 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 8 | If the ‘ pincers ’ were to meet then the space for conventional capitalist ‘ management ’ — i.e. the hierarchal direction of enterprises in the pursuit of profit , recognising some form of responsibility to ‘ shareholders ’ but not to working people — would be at least severely restricted and at best eliminated . |
| 9 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 10 | He recorded verdicts of accidental death and urged anyone who dumps a fridge or freezer to make sure the door hinges were smashed so the tragedy could n't be repeated . |
| 11 | Indeed , if we as a magazine were to reflect accurately the role of ‘ traditional ’ design relative to its actual usage , we might manage about one page per issue . |
| 12 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 13 | An and I think of course we were made quite a fuss of too . |
| 14 | If a 20 Megaton bomb were used today the damage would be incalculable . |
| 15 | Up to 60 staff at S and S Press in Abingdon were told yesterday the company was going out of business and their services were no longer required . |
| 16 | Rodríguez denounced on Aug. 17 the " massive trade " in Paraguayan children , claiming that up to seven children were sold abroad every week for US$7,000 each . |
| 17 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 18 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 19 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 20 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 21 | It was also vital to raise the nuclear threshold in Europe by increasing the level of conventional forces , and yet the British , for all too obvious financial reasons , were doing just the opposite ! |
| 22 | And as long as he was prepared to give the spending money , ie in the form of a voucher , er we were taking away the market share away from etcetera of this world . |
| 23 | It was worse than last year , with Hanna Brunner , but the high spirits of the company , knowing they were creating quite a stir , knowing they were good , all of them , made it bearable . |
| 24 | If the mid-point were taken arbitrarily the implication is that the UK manpower in R&D could be increased to 13–14 per cent of total manpower with continuing improvement in productivity . |
| 25 | Letters were delivered twice a week only . |
| 26 | However , they had called the egm and were putting forward a resolution which would remove four of their opponents from office . |
| 27 | A stack of debris was cleared to provide agents an unobstructed view of the compound and drums of diesel and petrol were eliminated so the cult could not use the fuel as an incendiary device , Ricks said . |
| 28 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |
| 29 | They were dining together the night before their flight to Bucharest . |
| 30 | When the gates were shut again the crowd broke , drifted again towards the huts . |