Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those assigned to long term sclerotherapy who presented with oesophageal variceal rebleeding were treated by further sclerotherapy as detailed above . |
| 2 | The case studies by Rapp , Berry and Temple ( 1973 ) which were referred to earlier in this chapter also illustrate all the major reasons for failure of conservation in Tanganyika and post-colonial Tanzania - technical incompetence and incompatibility with existing agricultural practice has already been mentioned — also attempts at coercion of peasants to build erosion works ( p. 1 17 , 250 ) , and a lack of participation , with an excess of petty restrictions ( p. 251 ) . |
| 3 | Well we have some quality system procedures which were referred to earlier this morning and they are called nonconformance control , corrective action and internal audit . |
| 4 | As the liquid cooled in the veins , the crystals of tin ores were formed at greater depths than those of copper ores . |
| 5 | If government borrowing were skewed towards shorter maturities , such risks might conceivably , at some future date , cause investors to shun short-term Treasuries and precipitate a funding crisis for the government . |
| 6 | The findings were that RTs to high frequency approximations were responded to faster in the RVF . |
| 7 | Both rings were imaged in greater detail by Voyager 2 . |
| 8 | Last summer , the crew 's appetites for racing were whetted by smaller one-design racing when 16 Sigma 33s were chartered from Britannia Sailing in Southampton . |
| 9 | Coffee was cultivated on the steep slopes while housing and processing plants were located on flatter ridges . |
| 10 | On this particular day such differences were resolved through later discussion , but how could conflict have been avoided altogether ? |
| 11 | Elsewhere in Bosnia , 41 deaths were reported amid further clashes with Serbs backed by the Yugoslav army . |
| 12 | While all the other samples were clean edged both of those from The Setting Studio were torn off larger pieces of bromide . |
| 13 | Above them , little wooden huts were perched in higher meadows . |
| 14 | Four seats were won by two parties closely aligned with the NLD , the United Nationalities League for Democracy ( UNLD ) won 65 seats and the remaining seats were won by smaller parties or independent candidates . |
| 15 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 16 | Hong Kong : Share prices were mixed to softer in lacklustre trading . |
| 17 | Hong Kong : Share prices were mixed to softer in lacklustre trading . |
| 18 | Capitalism , if the labour market was to operate , needed a workforce which was both mobile and wage responsive , and this meant an interim period in which old forms of control were eroded before newer and more appropriate forms of social and industrial control had fully emerged to take their place . |
| 19 | The Six original EC members , along with Spain , were committed to further developments like the Delors Plan , and Franco-German co-operation remained the back-bone of the unity movement . |
| 20 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 21 | They based their studies on the coal mines where , owing to increased mechanisation , the miners were merged into larger and larger groups , found it difficult to identify their share of the work within the enlarged groups and suffered low morale : productivity was falling . |
| 22 | In both cases they were related to earlier initiatives by the non-aligned states . |
| 23 | Mortgage loans in particular were granted for higher multiples of the borrower 's income in the late 1980s , although falling prices in the housing market have made lenders more cautious in 1991 and 1992 . |
| 24 | These were subdivided into smaller fields and a cropping rotation devised with the objective of moving production up and down the length of the strip . |
| 25 | Such hominoid-type creatures were hunted by stronger and swifter animals for food . |
| 26 | Villagers were moved to higher ground , the great barrage was built , and the flooding began . |
| 27 | A wide range of constituents of the drilling mud and formation waters were determined on site , and samples were collected for further analysis at Keyworth . |
| 28 | Witherings 's last years were disturbed by further accusations of dishonesty , many of them malicious . |
| 29 | For many , the drug was a catalyst , but the changes that acid produced were shaped by wider influences . |
| 30 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |