Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waksman is said to have been shown a culture of tubercle bacilli which had been killed by a fungus in 1932 , but he was not tempted to pursue the implications of this observation . |
| 2 | And the rest of the newsletter was a jumble of the usual scare stories , most of which he had used before ; allegations of safety breaches which had been covered up , doubts about the safety of the ageing Magnox stations , the unsolved problem of storing and transporting nuclear waste . |
| 3 | In a return to the system of price controls which had been abandoned in 1990 , sector-wide increases would be decided by union , business and government representatives . |
| 4 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 5 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 6 | Government officials denied that it was intended to re-open the direct negotiations with ETA leaders which had been suspended , after talks in Algiers , in April 1989 [ see pp. 36597 ; 36627-28 ] . |
| 7 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |