Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accomplish his Labours and Deeds , Hercules was obliged to travel to far-off places to destroy ferocious creatures which were ravaging the countryside and creating terror among the inhabitants , such as the Lernaean Hydra and the sea monster , to which a Trojan damsel had to be annually supplied . |
| 2 | Amongst Alf achievements were listed the Crucifixion and ‘ not buying any of Vincent Van Gogh 's paintings during his lifetime ’ . |
| 3 | So peaceful had the volcano been , in fact , that its fertile soils were extensively cultivated , vineyards flourished on favoured sunny slopes , and the people living on and around the volcano were enjoying the prosperity and security of the Roman empire at its height . |
| 4 | He became the characters in Homer or the tragedies , and made his audience feel they were seeing the drama as well as listening to an interpretation . |
| 5 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 6 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 7 | And if they were given the opportunity or or and the impetus to start to do something positive , I 'm sure they would take that up . |
| 8 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 9 | In 1904 both were given the title and status of university lecturers . |
| 10 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 11 | Parents and residents were given the impression that something was going to be done and were very dismayed to find that nothing has been done yet , hence this petition . |
| 12 | Douglas did n't want him as director but Mann was under contract to Universal who were financing the film and insisted on him . |
| 13 | It would therefore follow that unless Molla Yegan were using the title though in fact an ex-kadi , he must have become kadi again in the years alter returning with Molla Gurani . |
| 14 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 15 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 16 | The main aims of the Report , which was issued in March 1978 , were to increase the accountability and co ordination of advanced further education and to permit more forward planning by the polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 17 | Er you 've got people who were representing the community that 's as far as law and order is concerned er making decisions . |
| 18 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 19 | Enemy aircraft were strafing the column and the road was congested with refugees . |
| 20 | But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme . |
| 21 | The commoners ' representative , Dr Roy Swayne , believes it would be advantageous to accept the compromise deal , with its cash offer , because if the ministry ever were to sell the airfield when the Americans had gone , the 64 households concerned would still have some say in what happened . |
| 22 | He asked if it would be all right if the Southampton police were to sell the bike and give the proceeds to one of their charities , and I readily agreed . |
| 23 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 24 | Reports were now reaching the SD that people — especially those attached to the Churches — were expressing the hope that the Wehrmacht would take over running the State , and that there would be a final victory for Germany but not for National Socialism . |
| 25 | And so , he said , were all the shop stewards at his plant , who were expressing the view that , once again , the Merseysiders were taking the law into their own hands , breaking national agreements and overturning official union policy . |
| 26 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 27 | He , Ratagan and Isay were wandering the fortress and taking in the holiday atmosphere for want of something else to do before the feast began . |
| 28 | JUST SUPPOSE a creature from outer space were to visit the Earth and a group of world dignitaries assembled to greet him . |
| 29 | ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter . |
| 30 | They were offered the job and it has been working very well . |