Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 2 | Argument before the House of Lords in B's appeal and the judgments were confined to the certified question . |
| 3 | It would need to be evident that the activities were integrated into the curriculum of the school/college , and that , for the company , the partnership was seen as essential to the planning process , like the development of a new service or product . |
| 4 | In 1971 , following a period when the activities were managed as a trading fund , British Nuclear Fuels was created as a separate publicly-owned company to manufacture and reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 5 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 6 | The forms were sent to the Data Preparation Bureau and punched cards produced . |
| 7 | Ryan got the property at half the asking price , and the contracts were signed by proxy when he had returned to America . |
| 8 | The contracts were signed in the presence of Spanish President Felipe Gonzalez , and the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng . |
| 9 | It can ensure that this sum is available when required by exchanging sterling today , when the contracts were entered into , at today 's spot rate . |
| 10 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
| 11 | That figure is true as regards loans made in the 1991 fiscal year , and means 69% ( worth $1.8 billion ) of the contracts were won by non-Japanese companies . |
| 12 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 13 | These judicial decisions caused great political upheaval and resulted in the passing of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 which followed the same pattern as the Act of 1875 , protecting trade unions from actions for civil conspiracy if the acts were done in furtherance or contemplation of a trade dispute . |
| 14 | The method of redetermination employed by the experts was challenged as a matter of interpretation of the words of the agreement . |
| 15 | On the 18th tee we hit the same 3-wood , and as we walked down the fairway the crowds were massed around the last green ; the noise was unbelievable . |
| 16 | The crowds were drawn from the popular classes . |
| 17 | Tolkien shrank from that last , and recorded ( UT , p. 385 ) a rival theory that the orcs were bred from something like the Drúedain , the pûkel-men . |
| 18 | This last section of the questionnaire relates solely to training — the opinions were recorded of those who had used the services of the ATB in the past and the expectations of those who , until this study , did not know of the existence of the ATB . |
| 19 | The labourers were drawn into a pattern of early marriages , large families and demoralisation which expressed itself in a growing surliness and a readiness to explode into violent , but contained , protest . |
| 20 | Wilson 's gloom at the lot of the seamen was shared by the " Sailor 's Friend " , Samuel Plimsoll . |
| 21 | The foundations of the popularity of the seamen were laid at the end of the fifteenth century with the voyages of discovery of Bartholomew Diaz , Vasco da Gama , John Cabot and Christopher Columbus — the space explorers of their times . |
| 22 | The strips were placed in organ baths containing 20 ml of Krebs solution at 37°C continuously bubbled with O 2 : CO 2 ( 95%:5% ) . |
| 23 | Intestinal mucosal strips were treated at room temperature for 30 minutes in a 1.5 mg/ml DTT solution , after which the strips were washed in Hanks 's balanced salt solution ( HBSS ) and then gently stirred in a 1 mM EDTA solution for two periods of 60 minutes to release the epithelial cells . |
| 24 | Shortly after landing the servicemen were re-united with their families . |
| 25 | Well over half the freemen were occupied in providing clothes , food and drink , household goods and buildings . |
| 26 | The arguments dragged on for 11 months , during which time the orangs were looked after by volunteers , many of whom were recent graduates in biology from the National University in Jakarta . |
| 27 | The accounts were prepared in accordance with the new FRS3 reporting standard . |
| 28 | The accounts were prepared in accordance with the new FRS3 reporting standard . |
| 29 | Four days later , on 12 June , the accounts were sent to shareholders . |
| 30 | In that case , the plaintiff had invested money in a company after relying on accounts that had been prepared negligently by the defendant accountants who had known that the accounts were wanted for the purpose of inducing the plaintiff to invest money in the company . |