Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase in the dividend and presumably the optimistic implication about the bank 's future earning ability or the possibility that past investment policies were proving to be injudicious ? |
| 2 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 3 | Acorns and horse chestnuts were collected to be used in the making of munitions and several old pupils , on leave from the front , visited the school . |
| 4 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 5 | Painful bowel movements were thought to be present if the child complained of pain during defecation or when the child exhibited screaming or crying in anticipation of , or during , defecation , if the parent reported blood on the stool or if the child had an anal fissure present at the time of examination . |
| 6 | It appears that changes in the card catalogues were considered to be too difficult and costly to implement . |
| 7 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 8 | But in the context of the mid-Sixties , when Britain 's chaotic labour relations were deemed to be among the world 's worst , such good-natured willingness to work long hours , doing all kinds of jobs , for sums of money that were not vast , are extraordinary . |
| 9 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 10 | Despite the way these are sometimes now staged , these ottocento operas were meant to be taken seriously . |
| 11 | As quarrying proceeded , an oblique section of a large cavern was gradually uncovered , and the infill sediments were found to be richly fossiliferous . |
| 12 | Industry bosses were rumoured to be reconsidering their plans , possibly curbing the increases to 10% . |
| 13 | By May 15 all the Kuzbass mines were reported to be working again . |
| 14 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 15 | You knew the French exchange kids were gon na be here . |
| 16 | By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports . |
| 17 | NCP leases the car park above Presto in East Street , Darlington , from the local authority which recommended the upper deck be closed eight months ago after crash barriers were discovered to be unsafe . |
| 18 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 19 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 20 | The old-fashioned owner-manager was rarer and specialized management techniques were beginning to be studied . |
| 21 | N-terminal lysine residues were assumed to be present in lysylendopeptidase digests because of the high specificity of this enzyme . |
| 22 | Committee members were asked to be present . |
| 23 | The support workers were encouraged to be fairly flexible with the hours worked , so that they could respond to a crisis with their client , or to any temporary increased need for their services . |
| 24 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 25 | Commercial debt servicing obligations were expected to be reduced from an estimated $145-150 million to $35-45,000,000 annually . |
| 26 | I thought that job applications were meant to be treated in confidence . |
| 27 | The Le Mans officials were blameless as their safety measures were found to be more than adequate , and the speed at which the injured were taken to hospital was also exemplary . |
| 28 | Certain stations in black rural areas or town locations were expected to be used exclusively by Africans . |
| 29 | And he probably heard Hawaiian recordings , because we 're talking about the 1920s now , when phonograph records were getting to be a pretty widespread thing — the first real window on the rest of the musical world . |
| 30 | The RNA polymerases were found to be between 15% and 20% active using a titration with the strong T7A1 promoter at 9 nM in gel retardation assay ( described below ) . |