Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 , it is estimated , 682,000 gallons of whisky were consumed by the French , and that was twice as much as in 1960 . |
| 2 | The small intestine was then perfused with either PES or an ORS at 0.5 ml/min for one hour to ensure steady state conditions , after which three successive 10 minute collections of effluent were made from the distal cannula . |
| 3 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 4 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 5 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 6 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 7 | Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated . |
| 8 | By 1978 , the wind of change was freshening to a full gale in the cutter service . |
| 9 | The patch of skin was removed with a sharpened tungsten needle , a few drops of Hanks ' balanced salt solution were added to keep the wound from drying out , and the egg was then returned to the incubator . |
| 10 | The 1.8 km long Maidencraig Crescent–Silverknowes section of route was opened as a cycletrack in November 1983 . |
| 11 | The whole process of disempowerment was summarised by a social worker : |
| 12 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 13 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 14 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 15 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 16 | The name of the country was changed from the Mongolian People 's Republic to the State of Mongolia , and the yellow star of communism was removed from the state flag . |
| 17 | It was 1974 before that particular form of discrimination was removed by a new Adoption Act . |
| 18 | A degree of freedom was afforded to the Gascon nobility by the prevalence of allodial tenures , whereby no immediate lord was recognized , in certain parts of the region . |
| 19 | In the 1980s a lot of noise was made about a supposed crisis in British art . |
| 20 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 21 | The point is that if anything of that degree of complexity were found on a planet , we should have no hesitation in concluding that life existed , or had once existed , on that planet . |
| 22 | If no regeneration of mycelium was observed on the minimal medium without uridine , it was concluded that the nuclei had lost the ura + transforming gene during growth on non-selective medium . |
| 23 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 24 | An orgy of denunciations and evasions of responsibility was unleashed throughout the upper and middle levels of the bureaucracy . |
| 25 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |
| 26 | On the contrary , the lines of division were hardened between the two Western Christian camps , even on the more pastoral issues . |
| 27 | With P.P. , shifts of fixation were compared between a ‘ competition ’ condition , in which the central target remained visible , and the ‘ non-competition ’ condition where it disappears at the onset of the lateral target . |
| 28 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 29 | A similar pattern of inequality was discovered in a local survey of all those aged 60 and over living in their own homes in the city of Aberdeen . |
| 30 | The introduction of agriculture was accompanied by the first major ‘ engineering ’ works in the landscape . |