Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 2 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 3 | The rootstocks were developed at government research stations and are still known by their reference numbers . |
| 4 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 5 | Accordingly , difference and Sim-weighted Fourier maps phased from the protein model were calculated at 20–4Å resolution , and inspected using the computer graphics program FRODO . |
| 6 | The solid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated by exponential interpolation with as many surrounding points as appropriate . |
| 7 | Third , his anxieties about homosexuality were conjoined with class antagonism . |
| 8 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 9 | Under the legislation of the nineteenth century tithes were commuted into tithe rentcharge , an annual sum varying with the price of corn . |
| 10 | The final format of the grammar questions and the balance of language items tested were completed after computer analysis of extensive data from a rich sample of nationalities . |
| 11 | These were checked by strain gauge measurements and by making high speed films of selected golfers during the swing . |
| 12 | Crystal cleanliness and crystallinity were checked by Auger electron spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction , respectively . |
| 13 | Shrimp cultivation , an important source of foreign exchange , was washed away and vast quantities of fuel stored at the oil refinery in Chittagong were contaminated by sea water . |
| 14 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |
| 15 | His new innovation won approval and orders for the first 10 tankers were placed with NE ship builders . |
| 16 | Three NCP leaders , Krishna Prasad Bhattarai , Ganesh Man Singh and G. P. Koirala , were placed under house arrest . |
| 17 | After removal , mucosal biopsy specimens were placed in ice cold pregassed Krebs-Henseleit buffer containing 11 mM glucose , and transported within 10 minutes to the laboratory . |
| 18 | All injections of capsaicin and its vehicle were given under ether anaesthesia . |
| 19 | In Southern Rhodesia so many Whites were withdrawn for war service , particularly in the Second World War , that Africans and mixed-race ‘ coloureds ’ had to be trained to do some of their jobs . |
| 20 | Then , we were plagued with union disruption of industry , the nationalised industries lost millions and inflation was in double figures . |
| 21 | Barry Skinner , 19 and Debbie Conroy , 17 , were poisoned by carbon monoxide after they turned on the engine to keep warm . |
| 22 | Briefly , tumours or mucosal scrapings were homogenised in TEA buffer ( 250 mM sucrose , 10 mM triethanolamine ( pH 7.6 ) containing 1 mM phenylmethylsuphonylfluoride ( PMSF ) and 1 mM N-ethylmaleimide as protease inhibitors ) on ice and centrifuged at 1000 g for 10 minutes . |
| 23 | The studies were undertaken under Home Office and University of Birmingham regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals at all times . |
| 24 | The translations were undertaken by mathematics education specialists in Wales : an adviser , an advisory teacher and a retired teacher . |
| 25 | The suspicion must be that for all their draconian nature , Hitler 's comments on the Jews were regarded as stereotype repetition , and of little interest compared with his assessment of the war situation . |
| 26 | Sections of ethanol fixed tissue were prefixed in periodate lysine ( 2% ) paraformaldehyde for 10 minutes at 4°C and briefly washed in isotonic phosphate buffered saline ( pH 7.5 ) before use . |
| 27 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 28 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 29 | Patients were taught to selfadminister interferon subcutaneously . |
| 30 | In the agriculture industry attention centred , as in recent years , on environmental issues , particularly the removal of stockpiles of animal fertiliser from which nitrogen compounds were leaching into ground water and polluting the sea . |