Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago . |
| 2 | The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys . |
| 3 | All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 4 | Thus her choice of the quaint word , ‘ sweet ’ is no coincidence ; sweetness is the quality Victorian men were taught to prize in a woman above all others . |
| 5 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 7 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 8 | They were expected to continue for a month , with a 10-day break in early September . |
| 9 | The larger finance houses were expected to adhere to a slightly lower reserve ratio than the banks ( 10 per cent rather than 1 2.5 per cent ) but the reserve asset requirements would be the same as for the banks . |
| 10 | Attempts to rationalize production [ see p. 36635 ] did not , however , hold up prices which were expected to fall to an average of US$1,600 per tonne in the second half of 1989 . |
| 11 | After having participated alongside the men — organising the peasantry , conducting a guerilla war , living in the dangerous and uncertain conditions of an ‘ underground ’ existence — the women found that they were expected to return to a supposedly normal feminine role after the struggle . |
| 12 | The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention . |
| 13 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 14 | The initial allocations ( $9½ billion spread over three years ) were expected to provide for a reasonable growth of reserves in the context of a staunching of the flow of dollars . |
| 15 | At a subsequent season they were less keen when they found they were expected to work on a raft near the famous Sporting Club . |
| 16 | However 3,076 prisoners and 1,731 others on parole were expected to benefit from a pardon law , details of which were published on May 14 . |
| 17 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 18 | Together these factors have put new pressures on the international monetary system and on institutions such as the IMF which were designed to operate in a different economic environment . |
| 19 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 20 | Three people were reported killed during a shoot-out in Lomé on Nov. 27 between police and demonstrators who responded to a general strike call launched on Nov. 16 by the Collectif des syndicats indépendants and the Collective of the Democratic Opposition-2 ( COD-2 ) [ for May general strike see p. 38901 ] . |
| 21 | Seven people were reported killed in a series of pre-dawn air raids on two Croat villages , which Yugoslav army commanders said were in retaliation for attacks on an air base in the regional centre of Mostar nearby . |
| 22 | A total of 13 government troops were reported killed in a clash with FARC guerrillas on March 5 , but the Army claimed to have killed an important FARC commander , Alonso Cortes , in Cauca department on March 15 and were reported to have killed 30 FARC and EPL guerrillas in a clash on April 26 destroying 16 of their camps . |
| 23 | The level of violence in Kashmir appeared to be rising , one of the worst incidents taking place on Aug. 11 when 28 militants were reported killed in an attack on a military convoy . |
| 24 | On the same day 45 soldiers were reported killed in an LTTE ambush , and on May 5 an LTTE suicide commando attacked a government naval vessel , killing the five crew members . |
| 25 | On Oct. 10 between 30 and 100 people were reported hurt during a pro-Ershad rally in the capital , Dhaka . |
| 26 | In May at least 20 were reported drowned in a similar incident in heavy seas . |
| 27 | All the remaining 25 patients ( 54% of the original 46 and 81% of the survivors ) were interviewed according to a standard formula , using Visick grading of general clinical condition , recording heartburn , regurgitation and dysphagia with DeMeester-Johnson reflux scale . |
| 28 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |
| 29 | Only last night three men were seen breaking into a car . |
| 30 | Nuclei were prepared according to a procedure which gives transcriptionally active , intact nuclei ( 23 ) . |