Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Childeric 's grave at Tournai , discovered originally in 1653 , is perhaps the richest royal burial known from the early medieval period ; the quantity of goods found was astonishing . |
| 32 | Fei Yen was silent . |
| 33 | Mr Mendine said in those conditions driving was difficult because the inside of the cab steamed up with condensation , the windscreen wipers did not clear the whole of the screen and the front lights were obscured when carrying a high load . |
| 34 | The variety of treatments used was enormous , with 37 different types of treatment being recorded . |
| 35 | The mean number of problems mentioned was 1.5 . |
| 36 | TV HOSTS Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene yesterday launched a spirited defence of a Hallowe'en drama which terrified viewers believed was real . |
| 37 | Apart from recruitment the greatest problem most armies faced was that of giving adequate training to their officers . |
| 38 | Cattle stealing was one of the more prominent crimes carried out in colonial Sri Lanka . |
| 39 | Convictions were less likely in areas where cattle stealing was rampant . |
| 40 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 41 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 42 | That was about £800,000 less than the original estimate of £4.5m. which officers felt was unacceptable . |
| 43 | Among the topics discussed was Italian credits to Russia . |
| 44 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 45 | Although the style of leadership both managers had was authoritarian they both said they encouraged employee initiative and they also tried to appear friendly and approachable . |
| 46 | The inference viewers gained was that management was to blame in one way or another . |
| 47 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 48 | The hours devoted to farm work by the part-time farmers was fairly high and it was in these predominantly part-time farm areas that the discrepancy between hours required and hours worked was highest . |
| 49 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 50 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 51 | That explanation depends on the presence of molecular oxygen in the gas cloud that was condensing to form the Sun , something the San Diego chemists think was likely , although they can not be certain . |
| 52 | Rubin 's In-house use of materials in public libraries found that if in-house use was measured by counting items left on library tables , the average ratio of items used in the library to items circulated was 0.5 to 1 , while patron interviews on the same theme suggested a ratio of 1 to 1 . |
| 53 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 54 | The land into which the Russians advanced was similar in many ways to Canada in terms of terrain , climate and natural vegetation . |
| 55 | Indeed , in relation specifically to women not admitted , the difference between male and female members consulted was significant ( p=0.034 ) . |
| 56 | Well a return of 3 points from the 3 games played was disappointing , despite gritty performances at Newcastle and Scum . |
| 57 | Seston 's 100 metres time knocked six-tenths of a second off the previous record , while her 200 metres time was 1.2 seconds faster than the old mark . |
| 58 | It found that in Britain , the number of car users killed was 7.1 per billion vehicle kilometres — the lowest figure in Europe and less than half the EC average , 16 . |
| 59 | The premise on which the donors worked was that large amounts of capital could be absorbed by small African countries because their need for productive investment was demonstrably high . |
| 60 | Thus they often promoted what their leaders knew was mediocre art in the interests of all their members . |