Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bundles of papers and box files were stacked on termite-proof metal shelves but their labels had faded . |
| 2 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 3 | The cupboards were stacked with discarded baby clothing , receipts for adverts in London and suburban newspapers , anxious letters and telegrams from worried mothers , in fact virtually everything to give the thankful Detective Inspector a watertight case . |
| 4 | Later , shoe-shapes were traced on black card . |
| 5 | Bull and bear baiting have gone , but we are left with remnants of former use in such breeds as bulldogs , whose exaggerated lower jaws were developed through selective breeding , to hang onto the muzzles of bulls . |
| 6 | As more and more uses were found for computers in business and commerce , as well as in science and engineering , even easier languages were developed for lay use . |
| 7 | Comprehensive quality-assurance procedures for the onsite measurements were developed for this project . |
| 8 | For an answer we will need to look elsewhere : at the theories of conversational principles and speech acts , ideas which , as their names suggest , were developed with spoken language in mind , but are as applicable to written discourse as to spoken . |
| 9 | The plates were developed with high performance thin layer chromatography and read with a scanner densitometer ( Shimadzu CS 920 ) . |
| 10 | They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk . |
| 11 | For example , non-Christian religions were developed in more detail , and in many places a user was able to treat his own country or religion as the preferred category . |
| 12 | The trees were developed by Spanish engineer Antonio Ibanez , who claims to have interested an Italian multinational plus the French and more than one Arab government in his invention . |
| 13 | I watched the crew of a grubby Polish reefer vessel : they were taking pictures of each other against the background of the Gatun Locks ; three hours later , they were gazing with rapt attention at the passing majesty of Culebra ; their cameras were out again for the Pedro Miguel , for the distant flags of the American bases , for the Miraflores Locks , and for the immense red-white-and-blue bandera of the Panama Republic that waved lazily from the summit of Mount Ancon , over the old wooden houses of Panama City . |
| 14 | With the resurgence of the neo-classical architectural style in Victorian times most imposing buildings were erected with great attention to Greco-Roman columns and low , wide vaulted roofs . |
| 15 | Of course we were fascinated by revolting food , and liked inventing horror meals . |
| 16 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 17 | Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface . |
| 18 | To see which variables were related to a subject recalling a junction , point biserial correlations were calculated with each junction being scored as a 1 for a subject that recalled it and 0 for a subject that did not . |
| 19 | Sensitivity , specificity , and accuracy were calculated for each finding for each age group . |
| 20 | Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Using the method recommended by Dunlap , Jones and Bittner ( 1983 ) correlations were calculated for each subject individually across the 24 films used in this study , correlations were then averaged for the 48 subjects using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver & Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 22 | In comparing mean daily prevalence rates of morbidity between vitamin A and placebo groups in the Health Study , separate daily prevalence rates were calculated for each child for each of the intervals between dosing points . |
| 23 | To examine further the association of age and anti-HEV , prevalence rates were calculated for each decade . |
| 24 | Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method . |
| 25 | Crude relapse rates were calculated for each treatment using the method suggested by Kuirata , ( 100×number of relapses detected in 12 months , divided by the number recruited ) and were compared using a χ 2 test . |
| 26 | Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests . |
| 27 | Expected numbers were calculated for each group standardised for age , sex , and time period Observed numbers were treated as data from a Poisson distribution with mean equal to the number expected . |
| 28 | The correlation between risk ratings , accident estimates and the other 10 scales were calculated in each case . |
| 29 | Recurrence rates were calculated by lifetable analysis ( LTA ) and compared by the log rank test . |
| 30 | Age adjusted rates were calculated by direct standardisation with the total sample as the standard . |