Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their hands were encased in closefitting gloves and their heads were grotesque in respirators with ribbed breathing tubes and large , goggling eye-pieces . |
| 2 | The nomes were used to humans with signs . |
| 3 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 4 | To confirm that the changes in pin activity were due to changes in the level of a characterized gene product of tomato , we followed changes in steady-state levels of pin 2 messenger RNA by northern analysis . |
| 5 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |
| 6 | By the mid-1920s the universal result of the earlier shortage of equipment had become clear : 75 per cent of all cases of letting out land were due to lack of adequate tools . |
| 7 | He said the factory 's problems were due to lack of sales . |
| 8 | Nearly one third of all recorded crimes were due to thefts from or of motor vehicles . |
| 9 | Using an analogy fashionable at the time the Gestalt psychologists maintained that these distortions were due to interactions between ‘ electric ’ fields induced in the visual cortex by the stimuli . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that these negative results were due to inactivity of BMP-4 protein , because both preparations continued to be active in a different assay . |
| 11 | Most of the reported deaths , however , were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations . |
| 12 | Nominations for the second ballot — the only opportunity for new candidates to enter the contest — were due by midday on 22 November . |
| 13 | Looking at foreign experience , as the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry had also done , it was argued that the trade unions were weak in countries with family allowances and strong in countries without them . |
| 14 | Our six case-study schools whose procedures for combating truancy we report at the end , regularly monitored attendance and absentee pupils rates and were alert to ways of keeping disaffected pupils in school . |
| 15 | The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate . |
| 16 | All these parameters were normal in patients with Crohn 's disease in remission and in controls . |
| 17 | They sell 100,000 shirts a year but , unfortunately , the two examples sent to the Echo were unsuitable for use in a family newspaper . |
| 18 | The latter rumpus , still going on , emphasises Newport 's plight : they were grateful for players from Welsh rugby 's traditional whipping boys . |
| 19 | Spartak responded immediately and Liverpool were grateful to Hooper for saving Piatnitski 's low shot one-handed before turning Khlestov 's effort over the bar . |
| 20 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 21 | Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ . |
| 22 | Numbers were low in relation to available places for ‘ Presentation Skills ’ , the ‘ Project Evaluation Workshop ’ and ‘ Leadership , Motivation and Team Building ’ , and especially disappointing was the limited take-up for sessions related to teaching and learning . |
| 23 | Ministers were touchy on accusations of spending public money on making the prisons more comfortable for criminals while so many deserving people were suffering hardship or deprivation . |
| 24 | MARINE strikers Chris Camden and Brian Ross were each on target as the HFS Loans League beat an FA XI 3-2 in a representative match at Leek Town . |
| 25 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 26 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 27 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 28 | Even those governments that were in the vanguard of the urging for greater union were guilty at times of dragging their heels when OEEC proposals and policies seemed likely to have an adverse effect upon the national economy . |
| 29 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 30 | He declared that prison officers , staff at the Director of Public Prosecution 's office , government scientists and junior members of the prosecution team were guilty of dereliction of duty for failing to disclose evidence . |