Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [coord] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After leaving the British Army Medical Services , frustrated by the opposition of professional soldiers , he had created a research laboratory and clinic at St. Mary 's Hospital where his theories were developed and his own authority was not to be questioned . |
| 2 | By the time she reached this point in her narrative , Lou 's eyes had hardened , her nostrils were flaring and her small-boned hands were gripping her knees like talons . |
| 3 | The functions of the judge were curtailed and his quasi-criminal jurisdiction transferred to a criminal court . |
| 4 | Options are not transferable and may only be exercised by the persons to whom they were granted or their personal representatives . |
| 5 | All three girls were dressing and their youthful excitement pulsed through the house . |
| 6 | But Hugh 's brown eyes were closed and his martyred Saint Sebastian head was flat on the pillow . |
| 7 | Her teeth were chattering and her unshod feet felt like blocks of ice . |
| 8 | The serwal were admired and my own efforts at button-making were applauded . |
| 9 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 10 | I do want you to know how clearly I understand my deep obligation to you for giving me my first insight into the real problem we were facing and my first understanding of the nature of clinical research ’ . |
| 11 | Her eyes were narrowed and her alert expression a contrast to her earlier tension . |
| 12 | Governors and teachers do not need to be able to work these out , but they should be able to understand how the figures were reached and what such a budgetary report means . |
| 13 | All Nora could say was that funds in all the banks were exhausted and their known outgoings over the next four weeks exceeded their best estimate of income three-fold . |
| 14 | He called on the ANC to understand that , as he put it , their Eastern European " brother comrades " were gone and their political philosophy was dead . |
| 15 | The participants ' answers were scored and their grand totals then checked against where they fell on a continuum of five risk levels ranging from very low to very high . |
| 16 | Within one to two months , the newly grown tumours were removed and their representative sections were stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 17 | All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph . |
| 18 | Many of Mossadeq 's support were jailed and his foreign minister was executed . |
| 19 | Neurologists in the nineteenth century studied the effects of surgical removal of , or accidental damage to , the cerebral cortex in man and other animals without knowing the boundaries of the functional units they were proposing or their likely functions . |
| 20 | Gorbachev resigned on Aug. 24 as the general secretary of the CPSU ( Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) , a post which only two days earlier he had appeared unwilling to renounce ; the party 's activities were suspended and its central committee dissolved . |
| 21 | The first foragers to a feeding site were captured and their light-sensitive cells were painted so that when they returned to the hive they orientated their dances with respect to gravity . |
| 22 | When they returned , eight bonfires were blazing and our new friends from across the way were dancing to lively Peruvian music . |
| 23 | There was police intervention almost immediately ; an NILP loudspeaker van , which was making announcements , was stopped and its three occupants were taken to Victoria RUC station where , one of them later told the Belfast Telegraph , they were charged with incitement to defy the ban on the march . |
| 24 | From this date the disease was halted and its final disappearance coincided with a strong leste . |
| 25 | The tension was eased and they both laughed because they knew it was impossible , her getting tipsy and aggressive and him getting turned on by it . |
| 26 | As in Britain , again , the French wartime propaganda effort was improvised and its full potentialities seen only slowly ; but in France also the growth in the sheer amount of activity was striking . |
| 27 | During the last war , for example , when people grew their own fruit and vegetables , when meat was rationed and anything sweet was in short supply , the nation was much healthier . |
| 28 | That is , their memories may just go back to Suez , they can remember where they were when Kennedy was assassinated and their formative political years were dominated by the Wilson government at home and the Vietnam war abroad . |
| 29 | But Peter 's back was broken and his spinal cord damaged . |
| 30 | Paige dragged a hand through her hair in desperation , but she was caught and they both knew it . |