Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 the number of people shot dead in Britain by the police using firearms was five . |
| 2 | In 1968 3,845 , in 1973 10,419 and as at July 1977 the total flown hours was 69,171 . |
| 3 | For example , the analysis indicated that information about establishing and maintaining accounts was necessary in support of the finance function . |
| 4 | It has not always been obvious that the natural way to classify animals was hierarchical . |
| 5 | Seven days after induction , the area in vehicle treated animals was 10.4 ( 0.9 ) mm ( Table II ) . |
| 6 | The restaurant where she had arranged to meet Piers was close to the Palais Lascaris , an old , breathtakingly beautiful town house , and she located it without too much difficulty . |
| 7 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |
| 8 | Mary Law was aware that videoing lessons was difficult for probationary teachers : |
| 9 | She said that the traditional methods of maintaining hedgerows was another area in which she was involved . |
| 10 | The average rank of the first hit in the sequence of words for use in forming islands was 4.8 , and the rank did not increase with sentence length … |
| 11 | My first outing in these tough looking boots was three miles in good weather . |
| 12 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 13 | what you , your case is as I understand it , I 've only intervened cos I think the question did n't dis perhaps a lack of understanding this by Lord allow me to say so , what you 're saying is that erm , in fact , although not intentionally you 're prepared to accept the format of the brochure in relation to the on going charges was such as could reasonably be said by your newspaper to have mislead prospective purchasers |
| 14 | Third party databases such as those of Infocheck have been available on Telecom Gold for up to ten years , but until recently selling services was secondary to selling Prestel and E-mail systems ( and those two delivery options functioned as discrete entities ) . |
| 15 | Until recently , it was considered that this ability to make and use tools was one of the defining characteristics of the human race . |
| 16 | When the only cattle available were sickly , or when the cost of using cattle was high , human power became more attractive . |
| 17 | The high urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen and urokinase type plasminogen activator/tissue type plasminogen activator antigen ratio in ulcerating carcinomas was remarkable . |
| 18 | A SURGE in American exports to record levels was responsible for a dramatic improvement in February 's trade deficit to the lowest level in nearly nine years . |
| 19 | If living near one of the more expanding manufacturing or mining centres was likely to bring higher adult male wages , it was also likely to offer better prospects of regular waged work for women and children . |
| 20 | His business prospered , but his rise to prominence in printing circles was attributable to his contacts with the Tory party . |
| 21 | The number of species that featured dwarfs ( males of half the female length or smaller ) as opposed to equally sized partners was 0:41 in the hunters , 93:66 in the web-builders and 17:3 in the ambushers. b , c , Scattergrams of male ( ordinate ) and female ( abscissa ) body size of active hunters ( Lycosidae/Pisauridae , wolfspiders ; Salticidae , jumping spiders ) and sit-and-wait predators ( Araneidae , orb spiders ; Thomisidae crab spiders ) . |
| 22 | It was hardly surprising that in the bad old days , the adverse and misleading consumer publicity which surrounded microwaves was enough to discourage many a traditionally trained chef from learning new techniques . |
| 23 | Since in connection with this American libel we did not employ Mr Quintin Hogg , I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous reply : The third occasion when we instituted proceedings was several years later , in 1971 , when Harold Wilson was back in opposition , and related to the activities of the BBC , which produced a thoroughly incompetent piece of television called Yesterday 's Men . |
| 24 | The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone . |
| 25 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 26 | Again , the position under the Leasing and Factoring Conventions was complicated by the existence of two contracts . |
| 27 | The man giving orders was short and fat . |
| 28 | This is n't true , the logging practices were atrocious , and even tribal burial grounds have been uprooted by the loggers , and the number of deaths last year , in 1989 , logging deaths was 94 , because they 're sending loggers up even steep slopes to get the timber than they would normally , so there 's actually a lot of bad practice going on , so we 're hoping to fund Friends of the Earth , Malaysia in their environmental programme to help the indigenous people defend themselves , and therefore the forest better . |
| 29 | It is also possible that small intestinal overgrowth with deconjugating bacteria was present in some cases , which could counteract a concomitant effect of ileal dysfunction on bile acid synthesis . |
| 30 | Pursuing girls was hopeless with my looks |