Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even our analysis has had to distinguish between two forms of mass production , and the use of batch methods was applied to small and medium sized lots , which omits the possibility of large batches . |
| 2 | Roughly 60% of the export credits was extended in foreign currency and used almost exclusively for the financing of ships and passenger aircraft . |
| 3 | A group of leading opposition figures was ambushed in northern region of Assoli by unidentified assailants on May 5 . |
| 4 | The secretary-general of the French Foreign Ministry , François Scheer , was in Tehran Jan. 31-Feb. 3 , a period coinciding with Hammadi 's visit and the presence of the Algerian and Yemeni Foreign Ministers , but the claim that Iran was hosting peace talks was described by French Foreign Ministry officials as " absurd " . |
| 5 | Information given in the recall protocols was categorized into central and peripheral using the same technique . |
| 6 | In 1992 we again achieved record results , even though activity at some Wood Group companies was affected by reduced levels in North Sea exploration . |
| 7 | The success of last year 's Q.T. days was shown by improved attendance figures , a livelier and more positive attitude , by those attending , and some very good feed-back . |
| 8 | Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze 's call for a permanent secretariat in Istanbul and the creation of regional security bodies was dismissed by Russian and Turkish leaders . |
| 9 | A communiqué restoring trade relations and re-opening transit points was signed by Prime Minister Bhattarai during his visit to India in June . |
| 10 | The first of the Wills titles was granted for political services but the family members served all parties . |
| 11 | A nation-wide strike by lorry drivers was declared for early January , starting in Scotland , with also an overtime ban , and another threatened strike by oil-tanker drivers early in the new year . |
| 12 | Incidence of transient UOS relaxations was compared with oesophageal acidification , change of oesophageal body pressure , and extent of communication by χ 2 tests . |
| 13 | The need for better planning , and the need to organize and consider training courses within the overall framework of each individual 's development needs was mentioned in various ways , by a fifth of the sample , ( see Table 25 ) , although more often by larger libraries ( see Table 30 ) : |
| 14 | In the early 1820s the comparative material gathered from the United States by Liverpool abolitionists was used for parliamentary purposes . |
| 15 | The body of Martyn Joseph Willians was discovered on Great Western Way in the Newton Farm area of Hereford yesterday morning . |
| 16 | Thus , the total number of sectioned profiles of each cell type observed within the tissue volume overlying 10 µm muscularis mucosae was divided by effective section thickness ( mean diameter of nuclei plus actual section thickness , or 5+1=6 µm ) to obtain the absolute number of cells present within each tissue volume-compartment . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the use of text corpora was hampered by severe practical difficulties : computers were rare and expensive , and the only method of acquisition was manual input . |
| 18 | A significant upward revision to Sanga Sanga reserves was reported by independent engineering consultants DeGolyer and MacNaughton , resulting in an increase in net reserves to LASMO of 64 mmboe . |
| 19 | Moral suasion caused the banks to discriminate between customers in a manner unrelated to their ordinary business relations : a customer who happened to be an exporter was eligible for funds , but an equally good customer who , say , imported manufactured consumer goods was deprived of necessary funds . |
| 20 | THIS picture of a pitiful victim of the Serbs ' terror camps was taken by Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown . |
| 21 | Recently a French girl who was the victim of a ( thankfully rare ) brutal attack on the Guernsey cliffs was transported to intensive care facilities in this way . |
| 22 | A cap badge with the Guildford arms was continued in bi-metal form after 1902 with the King 's Crown ; the only radical variation being made after the Second World War when a beret badge of about ⅔rd size was introduced . |
| 23 | In all the analyses the presence of human NF-L DNA in the offspring of the founder mice was determined by Southern blot analysis ( 19 ) of DNA extracted from the tails or in the case of younger mice either placenta or liver . |
| 24 | The next day a series of fighter attacks was launched against Palestinian positions , killing as many as 20 guerrillas and wounding up to 60 other people , including a group of 10 schoolchildren in Abra . |
| 25 | Heavy fighting involving Kurdish pesh mergas ( guerrillas ) and government troops was reported in early September in parts of northern Iraq . |
| 26 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |
| 27 | Eradication of H pylori was defined as negative results by histological tests in all biopsy specimens at least four weeks after the end of treatment . |
| 28 | Four of the 128 patients studied were excluded because H pylori was identified in histological specimens only and could not be confirmed by culture or CLO test . |
| 29 | In both series , H pylori was associated with chronic active gastritis ( 92.6% for the 1960s and 47.6% for the 1980s ) compared with its presence in the mucosa without active inflammation ( 0% in the 1960s and 19% in the 1980s ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 30 | In 1989 500m roubles was allocated to basic research ; earlier this year , overall finance for science was increased by 30% . |