Example sentences of "were [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were to inhibit credit expansion it could lead to lower interest rates . |
| 2 | On their heads were checked winter head scarves twisted into turbans that showed by the particular shape the area from which they came . |
| 3 | This was ultimately conceded in 1964 when teachers were given majority representation on the Schools Council for the curriculum and examinations . |
| 4 | A further eight patients with villous adenomas but no evidence of malignant change were deemed unsuitable for the study and were given laser treatment only . |
| 5 | We were given crêpe paper to make hats , lanterns and crackers , and Mrs Archer would provide us with a sweet or a nut to put in the cracker . |
| 6 | During the elimination period the patients consumed a tolerated formula ( soy or protein hydrolysate ) or were given calcium supplementation . |
| 7 | The second group ( n=47 ) received dimethylhydrazine , and 24 randomly chosen animals were given calcium supplementation . |
| 8 | If it were given planning permission the store would create 200 jobs . |
| 9 | Is he aware that , under British Shipbuilders , Laird 's was classified as a naval yard , and other yards not so classified were given intervention funding ? |
| 10 | At the very successful Potential Teachers ' Day in July , 29 students were introduced to Medau at training level and were given background information about the syllabus and course structure . |
| 11 | Rootham and McCabe were given community service orders for 180 hours . |
| 12 | The Higgs brothers , of Roman Road , Middlesbrough , were given community service orders . |
| 13 | 4 patients were given co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for toxoplasmic encephalitis during follow-up . |
| 14 | Losers in both category , Mark Davies and Tony Briggs who scored one and three respectively , were given sugar candy dummies . |
| 15 | In addition some non-county borough councils and urban district councils under the previous system were given parish council status by order of the Secretary of State . |
| 16 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 17 | Over three evenings 70 people took part in the course , including some JS staff , and were taught life saving and resuscitation techniques . |
| 18 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 19 | Between 1870 and 1918 it appeared to eugenicists concerned with finding ways of breeding a better race that the wrong class of people were using birth control . |
| 20 | The main themes of this reform were to reduce the power of PACs , which were using election money to attain legislative influence . |
| 21 | None of the three bombs exploded because the Argentinians were using World War Two propeller bombs which need to be dropped from a great height to detonate . |
| 22 | Walls were painted lime green and lilac . |
| 23 | It is significant that the Open University in Britain made two films on the use of libraries — one showing the use of the public library and the other , produced for those students who were to attend summer school at some university , on the use of the university library under these conditions . |
| 24 | Even the Guardian 's own headline seemed reluctant to blame the soldiers : ‘ 13 killed as paratroops break riot : ‘ Soldiers were returning Derry sniper fire , ’ says Army' ( ibid.:43 ) , and the paper 's editorial distanced itself from Winchester 's account : |
| 25 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 26 | a high proportion of students were delaying job search , mainly because they planned to continue writing up their theses . |
| 27 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 28 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 29 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 30 | And David Gardner 's defence of processed hops does remind the listener powerfully of the arguments advanced by the brewers in the 1960s when they were replacing cask ale with keg beer . |