Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Consequently , it was struggling with outdated equipment and facilities . |
| 32 | Vagog was struggling in fourth place at the last where Lady Westown , going the best , fell and brought down Parlezvousfrancais . |
| 33 | Clark was visibly unhappy in his Lotus-Cosworth and , despite being the race favourite , was struggling in eighth place on the sixth lap when , coming out of a gentle right-hand curve , he lose control of the car . |
| 34 | This dictum , though carrying the authority of Atkin L.J. , was uttered without any reference to authority and can not be accorded great weight as a general statement of law . |
| 35 | Laura 's challenge to race back was uttered in that spirit , but she was the better swimmer and reached the jetty strokes ahead of me . |
| 36 | He said he was circling in that round of despair where you do n't care one iota what happens to you or anyone else . |
| 37 | His solicitor , David Watson , applied for a two week adjournment and Hodkinson was remanded on unconditional bail until June 29 . |
| 38 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 39 | It shows how wealth , created through shipbuilding , iron , lead and armaments manufacture , was redirected towards cultural development . |
| 40 | To develop a list of questions in a structured way as the basis for a second round of fact-finding , a root definition was formulated for each sub-system of the post-ERA model , and a series of second level models constructed . |
| 41 | Casts of these dinosaurs were sent to other museums around the world ; the industrialist Andrew Carnegie presented a cast of the gigantic Diplodocus to the Natural History Museum in London , where it was erected with great ceremony in 1905 . |
| 42 | In 1872 a statue to his memory was erected by public subscription in Albert Square , Dundee . |
| 43 | Whilst the Bensonhurst sentences closed a chapter in one of New York City 's most notorious racial crimes , a second was opened on June 13 with the start of the trial of three black youths , aged 15 and 16 , who were accused of attempted murder , and of rape and sodomy arising from an attack upon a 29-year-old white female banker who was jogging in Central Park . |
| 44 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 45 | Reproducibility was checked with six biopsy specimens from adjacent sites in a single patient and coefficient of variation was found to be 12% for butyrate metabolism expressed per µg protein per hour and 18% for glutamine metabolism . |
| 46 | The state of the fundic wrap was checked with retroflexed endoscope . |
| 47 | The compliance to this advice was checked at each interview . |
| 48 | The improvement in mean hearing threshold since the preoperative assessment was calculated for each child at each follow up . |
| 49 | The ratio of labelled ( S phase ) to total cells ( labelling index ) for the entire crypt , as well as ratios for each of the five equal compartments into which the crypt had been divided longitudinally , was calculated for each patient . |
| 50 | The mean difference in Hamilton scores between patients treated with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and those treated with tricyclic or related antidepressants ( treatment difference ) was calculated for each trial . |
| 51 | The mean number of errors made during each trial was calculated for each group . |
| 52 | To evaluate this parameter independently the mean stool frequency was calculated for each group at entry and during the study . |
| 53 | The ratio of radioactivity of ulcer area v intact mucosa was calculated for each group of rats . |
| 54 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 55 | The coefficient of variation was calculated for each set of 10 tubes . |
| 56 | In addition , each column was divided into five equal compartments from the base ( compartment 1 ) to the mouth of the gland ( compartment 5 ) , and the ratio of labelled to total cells was calculated for each compartment . |
| 57 | The ratio of drop out rate of patients in the serotonin reuptake inhibitor group to that in the tricyclic and related antidepressant group ( odds ratio ) was calculated for each study . |
| 58 | Population attributable risk was calculated for maternal smoking during the past two weeks , not exclusively breast feeding on discharge from the obstetric hospital , sleeping prone , and the infant sharing a bed with another person ( table V ) . |
| 59 | c The formula was calculated on average speciality costs which do not take into account the extra severity and complexity of referrals particularly to teaching hospitals . |
| 60 | Easter , however , was not only a movable feast but its incidence was calculated on different dating systems by the Celtic and Roman churches . |