Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 2 | Most households left the cities through unplanned decentralization , but some were moved as a result of specific planning policies . |
| 3 | Some had a heavy , lizard-like form , some were shaped like a crocodile , and many were small and bipedal . |
| 4 | Some were dragged by a foot still caught in the stirrup , round in a circle in the turf . |
| 5 | Q Our Piranhas have recently bred and we have a few fry left ( some were eaten by a Plec , which was in turn eaten by the Piranhas ) . |
| 6 | A sign of the importance attached to shells at this time is that some were obtained from a distance . |
| 7 | Many specimens are made from mammoth ivory , but some were made from a variety of stones or even from fired clay . |
| 8 | Most of the dressers were on a basic daily rate but some were paid on a measure of their work done . |
| 9 | Several strange-looking animals were lying in a field , and some were sitting in a tree . |
| 10 | Their style seems Scandinavian , and although some were rebuilt after a fire , this type of building has remained in use here since the sixteenth century for storing nets and other equipment . |
| 11 | It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway . |
| 12 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 13 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 14 | We shall see that there is evidence that this was perceived as a genre in its own right in England , and in English . |
| 15 | This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies , which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an ‘ enterprise economy ’ . |
| 16 | This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk . |
| 17 | This was replaced by a stone structure , only partly examined in the excavated area . |
| 18 | Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself . |
| 19 | This was said in a voice expecting contradiction , which Charles wilfully withheld . |
| 20 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 21 | This was revealed in a survey carried out by Kelly ( 1987 ) for the Wagner committee . |
| 22 | An example like this was tested as a student project , devised and supervised by Teresa Ludermir . |
| 23 | This was expressed as a ratio of biopsy/ plasma free leucine enrichment . |
| 24 | This was made on a piece of 3mm hardboard measuring 300mm by 230mm ( 12″ by 9″ ) although you can adjust these measurements to suit yourself ; nothing else is affected by this . |
| 25 | This was met with a reply of condonation , that 's to say his behaviour in Reno had demonstrated that he had forgiven his wife whatever actions on her part had forced him to seek a divorce in the first place . |
| 26 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 27 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
| 28 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 29 | This was demonstrated as a prototype in 1917 , and the production model arrived two years later . |
| 30 | This was tempered by a commitment to run banking policy , until the treaty was signed , through a Gosbank Council comprising Gosbank chair Viktor Gerashchenko and the heads of the state banks in the union republics . |