Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban land enjoying immunities was confiscated and artisans and traders living there were included in the towns ’ tax-paying rolls . |
| 2 | In 1987 the number of people shot dead in Britain by the police using firearms was five . |
| 3 | For example , the analysis indicated that information about establishing and maintaining accounts was necessary in support of the finance function . |
| 4 | And there was much in that , for the policy of these raiding parties was always to loot , never to attempt the towns or the castles if there was strong possibility of resistance . |
| 5 | Questioned by MORI , an opinion-polling company commissioned by Egon Zehnder , an executive-search firm , only 13% of a 100-strong sample of chief executives from Britain 's 500 biggest firms suggested that representing shareholders was among the top five contributions that outside directors could make to good corporate governance . |
| 6 | We found the most significant factor affecting the health of purchasing authorities was the outcome of subregional weighted capitation , in which inertia was overcome only where districts had gained or lost significantly under the formula . |
| 7 | Dishing out the programmes and shepherding VIPs was Janet McPherson who 'd been a champion racing driver , starting with Formula IV and graduating to Formula 1 and , on the way , beating all the men at Silverstone . |
| 8 | One of the first of what is now English Estates trading estates was built at Chirton in North Shields under the 1930s special areas legislation . |
| 9 | A controversial bill empowering the Japanese government to send members of the country 's Self Defence Forces ( SDF ) overseas to assist in UN peacekeeping operations was finally approved by the Diet on June 15 . |
| 10 | Opening crates was n't really her ‘ thing ’ . |
| 11 | It was all he did , these days ; signing chits was all he seemed good for . |
| 12 | SCOTVEC 's role in accrediting SVQs was announced by Ian Lang , Scottish Education Minister , in 1989 and since then developments have proceeded at a very rapid pace . |
| 13 | And nicking things was his game . |
| 14 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 15 | The perceived difficulty of ending marriages was doubtless one of the reasons for the increased concern with wife-battering which was of major import in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 16 | One effect of these trading links was that prices of wine in England were directly linked with the state of the war in South-west France . |
| 17 | Mary Law was aware that videoing lessons was difficult for probationary teachers : |
| 18 | They thought understanding women was the key to being a good lover and talked of the importance of chemistry between two people — you could be a good lover with one partner and lousy with another . |
| 19 | Accepting bills was once the principal function of those merchant banks who are still referred to as acceptance houses ( see section 3.3 ) ; it is now carried out by a large number of banks . |
| 20 | Tesco agreed that one of the great advantages of using headhunters was their speed in short-circuiting and short-cutting — but not skimping — all the work involved . |
| 21 | She said that the traditional methods of maintaining hedgerows was another area in which she was involved . |
| 22 | Previously a much more common method of dating coins was through their style . |
| 23 | The blame lay with the DES , which had thought that ‘ establishing polytechnics was just an administrative exercise ’ . |
| 24 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 25 | Bolstering the otherwise flagging figures was the Application Hardware segment that achieved 8.6% pre-tax growth and 1.9%. turnover growth . |
| 26 | The point about picking currants was that there was absolutely no temptation to eat the crop . |
| 27 | Henry I was only concerned with hiring knights ; hiring foot-soldiers was probably commoner . |
| 28 | The average rank of the first hit in the sequence of words for use in forming islands was 4.8 , and the rank did not increase with sentence length … |
| 29 | Following an Anglo-French workshop ( sponsored by the ESRC and the CNRS ) in September 1990 , it was felt that further research into and analysis of the associated issues of social cohesion and civilising processes was needed to extend and inform both public debate and scholarly activity . |
| 30 | The librarian serving children was , then , to be a most unusual person , a paragon , a sort of bibliothécaire Florence Nightingale , but without her disturbing leadership and reformist qualities . |