Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Marquis , where non-management staff are known as associates , all 1800 employees were given half day seminars on TQM1 : Empowerment . |
| 2 | In 1982 , we were given another 5% rise although inflation was well over 50% . |
| 3 | The remaining beneficiaries were to include former UNITA members who were to be re-integrated into society , as well as refugees returning from neighbouring countries , Europe and the United States . |
| 4 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and UNPROFOR were to designate more protection zones . |
| 5 | Kurdish leaders announced on Nov. 12 , following meetings with government ministers in Baghdad , that they were withdrawing all guerrilla forces south of Arbil , in northern Iraq , in exchange for an end to the three-week long economic blockade [ see also p. 38548 ] . |
| 6 | However , we were told that path repair work is planned and that groups of young people do clean-ups . |
| 7 | While we were there we were told some ghost stories about the house and in one room there was a mummified cat to ward off evil spirits . |
| 8 | Liberal and socialist Assembly members opposed the bill on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and unfair to citizens who were occupying former church property . |
| 9 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 10 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 11 | If you were to let that iron cool , what form of iron would you actually have ? |
| 12 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 13 | Nevertheless their energy and inventiveness were getting some development experts excited . |
| 14 | Having won the trophy last year for the team which raised most sponsorship cash , Hunterston were raised most sponsorship cash , Hunterston were invited top participate in this years Raleigh Power Challenge at Weston Park in Shropshire . |
| 15 | At the beginning of March , a social services minister said that hospitals were reporting fewer car accident victims as a result of the law . |
| 16 | ‘ In the early days we were buying more paperback rights from other hardback publishers , because even five years ago there were more hardback publishers around that you could buy from . |
| 17 | Some shoppers were buying half price items for next Christmas . |
| 18 | The Blackburn were doing this moslem prayer arm-worship thing going ‘ Shearer-Shearer ’ . |
| 19 | And erm when we were doing these cards Mrs , that 's Scott 's old teacher , she 's very nice , very modern |
| 20 | ITV were dealt another body blow yesterday when rivals BBC announced that they had won the battle to screen Liverpool 's European Cup Winners ' Cup campaign next season . |
| 21 | " We began with history , and covered the early years of Queen Elizabeth , and we were to have some music practice , but I persuaded Miss Powers to leave that until later this afternoon , lest it disturb you . " |
| 22 | The two older children were playing some board game and arguing in a fairly friendly manner . |
| 23 | Chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forcasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 25 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 26 | The Minister must be aware that under the 1988 reform package we were assured that intervention stocks would disappear , but they are now at record levels , whether for skimmed milk , butter , beef or cereals . |
| 27 | The 90s were to feature more women victims of violence . |
| 28 | Close to St. James 's Gate , Dublin , the clever friars of the Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr , like their brothers elsewhere , were discovering some home truths about quality control and the merits of allowing beer to come into condition . |
| 29 | A general strike had been in effect in the city since December , with workers and students demanding the resignation of the President and the government , which , they alleged , were harbouring former Ceausescu supporters . |
| 30 | In fact at the time the verderers were weighing these possibilities Marian , Allen , and Hugh had not yet even discovered the existence of the Swamp . |