Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] were [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 2 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 3 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 4 | The Fates were thought cruel , for they paid no heed to human suffering and were usually depicted as old and ugly women attended by the shadowy Nemesis , goddess of the inevitable . |
| 5 | Details of patients are given in table i and they were divided into four groups : groups a : colorectal carcinoma ; group b : benign colorectal tumours — that is , tubulovillous adenomas ; group c : inflammatory bowel disease ( five patients had ulcerative colitis and one patient had crohns disease , with stool frequencies ranging from four to six motions per day ; all patients had diffuse pan-colitis and were histologically reported as ‘ moderate active chronic colitis ’ ; and group d : haemorrhoidectomy . |
| 6 | In yet another school we observed science lessons using a topic approach in the library and were reliably informed that the proposed project purchase in this subject was precisely for this kind of use . |
| 7 | By the beginning of the nineteenth century houses had reached their greatest simplicity and were often stuccoed and painted . |
| 8 | I like I 'm sure others , once the issues were published for the E I P , took advice from the Home Secretary and were simply advised that the location that that we should give evidence on locational matters to the E I P and that is what we have done . |
| 9 | Patients were classified into quartiles independently in respect of their energy intake and their physical activity and were then designated as having a low energy intake , a normal energy intake , or a high energy intake with respect to their physical activity . |
| 10 | The limited availability of materials for building and the primitive methods of construction meant that the houses lasted only about a generation and were often rebuilt and frequently added to as the family increased . |
| 11 | The limited availability of materials for building and the primitive methods of construction meant that the houses lasted only about a generation and were often rebuilt and frequently added to as the family increased . |
| 12 | This can be seen most clearly in the case of men who entered Gloucester 's service in one context and were then employed or rewarded in another . |
| 13 | This can be seen most clearly in the case of men who entered Gloucester 's service in one context and were then employed or rewarded in another . |