Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 2 | Synthetic drugs such as quinacrine and chloroquine , were developed to replace natural quinine but some strains of malaria are found to be resistant and doctors are using quinine again to treat malaria in Vietnam , fortunately , trees grow well in Java which is now the main global source . |
| 3 | As long as any feudal dues remained valuable the lords desired to protect them , and rules about title to land at common law were developed to aid this process . |
| 4 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 5 | Percentage change in ozone on 25 March at 56mbar resulting solely from chemical processes acting from the start of the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 6 | Change in the total ozone ( Dobson Units ) due to heterogeneous processes for the period 15 December to 25 March from the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 7 | Percentage of the model domain north of 25°N covered by polar stratospheric clouds at 56mbar for the simulations in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations ( run 1 ) , present-day levels of CO 2 but with model-calculated ozone concentrations ( run 2 ) , doubled CO 2 with climatological ozone concentrations ( run 3 ) , and doubled CO 2 and model determined ozone concentrations ( run 4 ) . |
| 8 | Extensions to both East and West Breakwaters were completed giving added protection to the approaches to the Harbour and Docks . |
| 9 | On days five to seven , 7.5 mg sodiumpicosulfate ( Laxoberon — Boehringer Ingelheim ) were given to facilitate colonic washout . |
| 10 | These areas were designated to conserve valued landscapes and to make them more accessible to the general public ( or at least to those who own cars ) . |
| 11 | Johnnie Warburton renewed his acquaintance with Jack when they were designated to work alternate shifts . |
| 12 | The distribution and structural data strongly suggested the possibility that ICAM-3 would be a third ligand for LFA-1 and experiments were undertaken to test this hypothesis . |
| 13 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 14 | They rotated at 120rpm , and they were intended to allow louder reproduction , not increased fidelity or playing-time . |
| 15 | Apart from reducing the budget deficit , the cuts were intended to reassure financial markets after the European-wide currency crisis forced the floating of the markka [ see p. 39080 ] . |
| 16 | De Gaulle used the extraordinary powers granted to him in June to introduce a set of major economic measures , which were intended to remedy these problems and to show France and the world that a state worthy of the name was now in charge . |
| 17 | Both the August initiatives were intended to reduce anti-US feeling which in recent weeks had increased following the activities of US military and anti-drug personnel in the country . |
| 18 | As regards intent , the United Kingdom Government had never concealed the fact that the restrictions introduced by the Act of 1988 were intended to exclude Spanish interests from the United Kingdom fishing industry . |
| 19 | All these cathedrals were intended to have many towers surmounted by spires . |
| 20 | These drugs were intended to have specific effects and on the whole it was hoped that they would have as few other effects as possible . |
| 21 | As the programme of library education was in a state of active development , many of the methods used were intended to provide formative evaluation on which course modifications could be based . |
| 22 | Because this was thought to increase volatility , in June 1987 the expiry times were altered to avoid this triple witching hour ( Stoll and Whaley , 1991 ; see also Chapter 13 for further discussion of the triple witching hour and expiration volatility ) . |
| 23 | He argues that some Conservative leaders were predisposed to fight local elections on party lines from the moment that the modern system of local government was introduced . |
| 24 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 25 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 26 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 27 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 28 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 29 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 30 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |