Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most lenders waited until payments were three to six months in arrears before seeking repossession orders , and by the time a court order was granted most families had moved out . |
| 2 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 3 | Social workers later discovered that one of the children 's grandmothers had offered to look after them , but was told other arrangements had been made . |
| 4 | When the survey was closed 141 questionnaires had been returned to IMS ( 82 per cent ) . |
| 5 | Before percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology was attempted many groups had shown that a tissue diagnosis could be achieved in some patients with obstructive jaundice caused by malignancy by detecting neoplastic cells in duodenal aspiration . |