Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers . |
| 2 | Glycated haemoglobin and plasma electrolyte concentrations were checked every two months . |
| 3 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 4 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 5 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 6 | Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch . |
| 7 | In the previous chapter a distinction was made between the attitudinal function of intonation and several other functions that were given the collective names of syntagmatic functions . |
| 8 | They had made enquiries of someone in the village , Melchbourne , but were given the wrong directions , through ignorance or malice . |
| 9 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 10 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 11 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 12 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 13 | Military staff ensured that they had no sleep for the first three days , after which short periods of sleep ( 4 hours ) were permitted every twenty-four hours . |
| 14 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 15 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 16 | To the natural hazards of intermittent drainage , alternate floods and droughts , and infertile , stony soil were added the human obstacles of antiquated systems of land tenure , primitive methods of farming , neglect of welfare services , poor communication and exploitation by moneylenders and merchants . |
| 17 | Since the cameras were installed the outrageous stunts pulled by don't-care drivers have amazed police . |
| 18 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 19 | He lived for racing , and he , Fred Archer , and George Fordham [ qq.v. ] were considered the finest jockeys of their time . |
| 20 | Serb forces were considered the main culprits , although Croats and Moslems were not exempted from criticism . |
| 21 | Collision fenders were bracketed a few inches below the ends of the baulks . |
| 22 | Thereafter , ultrasonography and laboratory tests were done every three months and ERCP every six months , during the two first years of follow up . |
| 23 | Much of Fr John 's time was also taken up visiting his outstations and taking Mass and the sacraments to the people who were visited every three months . |
| 24 | Men and horses were decorated with green , yellow and red silks and shields covered with gold and silverwork ; and round the horses ' necks were hung the bloodstained cloaks and trophies of the men each rider had killed . |
| 25 | Patients were seen every two weeks throughout the trial . |
| 26 | The patients were seen every three months at their local hospital jointly by their own physician and the trial coordinator . |
| 27 | But French TV pioneered the national exit poll , and the ‘ results ’ were revealed a few seconds after the last ballot slip was boxed . |
| 28 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 29 | Into the discussions of partnership in validation , the ‘ blue book ’ and the possibility of new validation arrangements with ‘ mature ’ institutions were fed the varied attempts to draw lessons from and conduct dialogue around the specific difficulties encountered over the Teesside visit . |
| 30 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |