Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neurological and behavioural tests were given to the children soon after the birth , and at regular intervals after that . |
| 2 | ‘ We said that if David was out , then we were all out and would n't play against Bournemouth because we were sticking with the players still owed money . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 4 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 5 | Their bodies were broken on the rocks below . |
| 6 | The final two initiatives were to continue in the years ahead , but the other three had reached or would shortly reach the end of their trajectory . |
| 7 | His eyes were hidden behind the Raybans again now , but his sideways glance was quizzical . |
| 8 | After allowing for cell adherence , increasing concentrations of histamine ( 10 - 6 to 10 -10 M , Sigma , Dorset , UK ) or cimetidine ( 10 - 5 to 10 -10 M ) were added to the wells either alone or in combination giving a final well volume to 500 µl . |
| 9 | The thin light was casting curious shadows everywhere now , and Lugh blinked and rubbed his eyes , because just for a moment it had seemed that figures were appearing through the mists ahead of him . |
| 10 | In women about half of the discharges were seen among the patients over 64 years of age ( Fig 3B ) . |
| 11 | Seb and Antony were looking at the horses dubiously , trying to see past glories and failing . |
| 12 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 13 | Taking its way along the high sad wall confining the stableyard , it crossed , by a minute stone-walled bridge ( gateposts in exact relation to its height and arch were built into the walls tight as ingrowing toe-nails ) , the same stream that hurried down the garden hill . |
| 14 | They were built from the materials closest to hand and so have an utterly distinct regional character . |
| 15 | The B53 matched cell lines were matched to the donors only for HLA-B53 ; the B53 mismatched line was matched to Z 16 ( HLA type A3 , A19 , B35 , B53 , Cw3 , Cw6 ) only for HLA-Cw3 . |
| 16 | So we were off er after that we were off and landed down in erm Bishop 's Wharf er in the woods there and we , the next morning we were off down to Gosport and we were embarked on the ships there and er landed in Normandy at the beach it was . |
| 17 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 18 | Before the DES gave funding adult literacy classes were offered in the evenings only . |
| 19 | The people died young , and their brains were transported by the androids here , to the station , where they were used to augment a living computer called Pool . |
| 20 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 21 | They were going up the stairs now . |
| 22 | We were belonging to the territorials then . |
| 23 | Now , Shelley , tell me what you were reading when you were skulking in the woods today . ’ |
| 24 | 1990 ; Strong and Robinson 1990 ) For many districts , Griffiths 's concern with consumer research , improving quality , and evaluating effectivness were driven to the sidelines even though Peters and Waterman 's In Search of Excellence increasingly appeared on the bookshelves of general managers ' offices . |
| 25 | A pair of collared doves were moaning in the trees overhead ; the day was absolutely still — sunless and oppressive . |
| 26 | Often , these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher . |
| 27 | Wool , beef , dairy products , and cereals became more and more commercial sources of wealth , as opposed to providing for local self-sufficiency , and were concentrated in the areas most suited to their cheap production . |
| 28 | The ammonoids were derived from the nautiloids probably during the early Devonian , and from the Carboniferous until the Cretaceous are among the most abundant of fossil groups , in some rock types dominating to the exclusion of most other members of the fauna . |
| 29 | A new breed of drama advisers , trained teachers , interested in the work of Slade and Way were appointed from the mid-1960s onwards . |
| 30 | More than a century ago tunnels and galleries were cut into the cliffs here by the engineers who constructed the Axenstrasse road which enabled vehicular traffic to pass along the lakeside towards the Gotthard and obviate the need for lake transhipments . |