Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee . |
| 2 | The pent arrows took the air like a flight of hawks , and in the charging ranks across the river sudden gaps were ripped and flattened like corn before the wind . |
| 3 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 4 | They feared for the safety of relatives and friends who were traced while the three men spent months under medical treatment at Broomfield Hospital . |
| 5 | Over 16,500 were born , and 13,135 were traced and studied in 1975 . |
| 6 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 7 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 8 | Theories were developed that might be regarded as dealing with such issues only in the field of conflict . |
| 9 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |
| 10 | Consequently , new union-based structures ( 'factory councils ' ) were developed as organisations of the shop stewards , to be directly representative of the rank and file . |
| 11 | Manpower forecasting systems were developed as were systems to support pay negotiations and the implementation of salary reviews . |
| 12 | Two systems for engineering a ‘ human ’ insulin were developed and most patients have been switched to these engineered products . |
| 13 | After leaving the British Army Medical Services , frustrated by the opposition of professional soldiers , he had created a research laboratory and clinic at St. Mary 's Hospital where his theories were developed and his own authority was not to be questioned . |
| 14 | It is natural that some of these stories were developed and adapted to make the message of the Gospel relevant to people of differing backgrounds to the Jews . |
| 15 | During the late 1970s and early 1980s several innovative and more sophisticated approaches to smoking education in schools were developed and evaluated . |
| 16 | In this context ‘ critical ’ and ‘ rational ’ powers were developed and Goody sees this as connected with the beginnings of religious and natural philosophy and ultimately with science ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | Labour 's weak bargaining position , combined with the speed with which new industrial centres such as the Donets basin of the Ukraine were developed and older cities such as St Petersburg expanded , ensured that little attention was given to the needs of the work-force . |
| 18 | Fifteen main programmes were developed and these were divided into over 600 sub-elements . |
| 19 | There is a dispersed distribution of industrial estates within the county ( Shaw and Williams 1982b ) , which were developed and managed by a number of organizations including the Industrial Estates Corporation , the county and district councils and commercial establishments . |
| 20 | Thirdly , both conceptions of the higher education enterprise were developed and indeed articulated within the framework of a set of wider philosophical values and meanings . |
| 21 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 22 | During this time updating and regular reporting procedures were developed and the necessary programs written . |
| 23 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 24 | I wanted to wait until the pictures were developed and until I could make a written report . ’ |
| 25 | To handle all this , methods of matrix management and techno-economic planning were developed and introduced , with each establishment under a director but with programmes running across the line management of the establishments . |
| 26 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 27 | However little detailed research has been undertaken into how these innovations were developed and implemented , and this project will make use of the unique Company Archive of the Thomas cook organisation to investigate the detailed circumstances of product development in a crucial period of the Company 's development from 1850 to 1939 , during which the foundations of the modern tourist industry were laid . |
| 28 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 29 | Fortunately methods of antenatal diagnosis were developed and introduced in the 1980s , allowing parents to be offered termination of the abnormal fetus . |
| 30 | To address the varying needs of staff in different schools inservice sessions and workshop programmes on the following topics were developed and delivered . |