Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the British delegation , the pace of change proposed was far too hasty . |
| 2 | The size of crowds assembled was considerable ; although the evidence is impressionistic they must have commonly numbered several hundreds and perhaps , on occasion , more than a thousand . |
| 3 | The first edition of Paradise Lost was printed in an edition of around 1300 for which Milton received £5 . |
| 4 | In areas where cattle stealing was highly organized and ransoming common it is likely that the proportion of cases reported was very much smaller . |
| 5 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 6 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 7 | The reference to recovery of money paid was obiter and Atkin L.J . |
| 8 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 9 | However , in extracts from RJ2.2.5 , and other MHC class II negative cell lines , such as HeLa , the amount of complex observed was significantly higher than in wild-type Raji cells . |
| 10 | The quantity of animals killed was quite dramatic , and if one interpolates these figures into the nation |
| 11 | Every moment of pleasure missed was painful to her . |
| 12 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 13 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 14 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 15 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 16 | ‘ The variety of entries received was staggering , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The sheer weight of dicta amassed was intimidating , but Mr. Ashworth conceded he could find no authority actually binding on me . |
| 18 | The method of fishing employed was to secure one end of the dragnet on the shore and the other on the boat . |
| 19 | Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division . |
| 20 | In the second case , the number of consonants recalled was expected to decrease as the delay increased . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 22 | However , the 80 mg dose of aspirin used was inadequate to achieve a rapid clinical antithrombotic effect during the 7–24 h when angiography was done . |
| 23 | In addition , the exact Ea copy number of the transgenic mice from other groups is not known , and/or the number of mice tested was not large . |
| 24 | But , as the figure also shows , the dose of LiCl used was sufficient to produce an almost total aversion in the subjects naive to the CS , and thus a difference between the groups might have been obscured by a ‘ floor effect ’ — by a lack of sensitivity in the test ( see also Misanin , Blatt , and Hindenliter 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Only 49 per cent of companies surveyed were paid by 75 per cent or more of their customers within the agreed credit period and 20 per cent said that half their customer were failing to pay on time . |
| 26 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 27 | Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability . |
| 28 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 29 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 30 | The general categories of applications reported were as follows ; in most cases more than one category was present in the same organization . |