Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diseases and infections were spread through poor sanitary conditions and efforts were slowly made to combat this . |
| 2 | Forty patients with active duodenal ulcer disease and H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) , and raniditine ( 300 mg in the evening ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 3 | Forty patients who qualified for admission to the study ( Tables I and II ) were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) ( Antra , Astra Chemicals , Wedel/Holstein , Germany ) before meals and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) ( Amoxypen suspension , Grünenthal , Stolberg , Germany ) before meals and at bedtime for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) ( Jatrox , Röhm Pharma , Weiterstadt , Germany ) before meale , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) ( Clont 400 , Bayer , Leverkusen , Germany ) and tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) ( Hostacylkin 500 , Hoechst , Frankfurt , Germany ) after meals , and ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 4 | Patients were randomly allocated to receive either conventional treatment alone ( control group ) , or conventional treatment plus nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation ( NIPPV group ) . |
| 5 | Stealth and persuasion were obviously required to achieve this change by democratic means . |
| 6 | This concession having been wrung from Dame Evelyn , we were thereupon authorised to attend all meetings and to advise as though we had the accolade of civil service accorded to us . |
| 7 | The liquidators won an £11.7m judgment against companies owned by disgraced City financier Jim Raper in the Manx court on Monday but said they were not expecting to see any of this . |
| 8 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 9 | Heads and governors were not required to manage these two main influences although headteachers themselves were often directly involved in the committees and working parties which steered the programmes of teachers ' centres . |
| 10 | Sailors were not expected to undertake more than their normal duties on board ship ; should they , however , be injured as a consequence of " warlike operations " , they would be entitled to a pension or gratuity , and should they lose their lives , dependent relatives would be granted compensation . |
| 11 | They did so all the more readily because they were not expected to adopt any ideological formula but , rather , were able to put the stamp of their own opinions on the policy of a Party which had no set position of its own . |
| 12 | The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it . |
| 13 | They were not going to give each other away . |
| 14 | As the party noise began to dominate the room , the hum of voices , glasses clinking , laughter from the old guard , who were not going to allow any tension to spoil their evening , Busacher came over to Therese . |
| 15 | The plaintiffs had said that they were not going to perform that contract unless the defendants entered into the contract with them which was in issue . |
| 16 | It was past midnight , so this was the start of Sunday , and Sundays in Taiwan were not going to bear much resemblance to Sundays in the countries she had known so far . |
| 17 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 18 | They were not going to fight any more , and we decided we must leave them on the island . |
| 19 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 20 | Peter Nutting , who led the association of Outhwaite members to a succesful settlement , said he sympathised with Gooda Walker names , but ‘ if the names were not going to pay these calls , who did they think was going to pay them ? ’ |
| 21 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 22 | In answer to the first the chief told me they were not allowed to divulge such information : it was classified . |
| 23 | The boys involved were not allowed to collect any end-of-term prizes . |
| 24 | In certain mines the men were not allowed to earn more than a certain sum but there is no evidence of this invidious practice at Coniston . |
| 25 | Two bogie cars were not allowed to pass each other on the curve at the top of Ringstead Road . |
| 26 | We were not allowed to have any ladders in our stockings or anything like that , we had to look very smart . |
| 27 | They er they just had their blacklists and er and er that was it , you you you were out , and you were n't going do er , you know , you were not allowed to have another job . |
| 28 | The first conclusion must be that this failure is not unexpected because social services were not designed to reduce such inequalities . |
| 29 | The regents were nevertheless compelled to accept these verdicts for the time being . |
| 30 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |