Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a higher output than would be preferred if the only constraint were that shown by the budget line 12 ( i.e. output X* ) . |
| 2 | All eight defendants were each convicted on at least one count of racketeering , defined as committing crimes to support a continuing criminal enterprise . |
| 3 | However , these bilateral arrangements were not universal in that the dollar and sterling areas were each characterized by a system of multilateral trade and payments based on the dollar and sterling respectively . |
| 4 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 5 | A biting , end-to-end wind did not assist the enjoyment of the night for players or spectators , and goals from both sides were each scored in the dying moments of the halves . |
| 6 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 7 | To avoid having three months each of 31 days occurring in succession , September and November were each reduced to 30 days and October and December were each raised to 31 . |
| 8 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 9 | To avoid having three months each of 31 days occurring in succession , September and November were each reduced to 30 days and October and December were each raised to 31 . |
| 10 | McCaulay , Mann , O'Donovan and McClelland were each placed on probation for 12 months ; Donaghy was given probation for two years and Dempsey was ordered to carry out 200 hours community service . |
| 11 | Five 200 µl aliquots representing 2.56×10 6 lymphocytes were each placed in Krebs-Henseleit with a colonoscopic biopsy specimen taken from the same patient and metabolism measured as below for mucosal biopsy specimens . |
| 12 | In the Groeger and Chapman study the films were each viewed by 48 subjects who had just completed a drive around Cambridge with a local driving instructor . |
| 13 | As Mitcham Road and Penge depôts were each built for 25 cars , the South Metropolitan company spaciously provided accommodation for double the number of cars its fleet ever reached , presumably with other extensions still in mind . |
| 14 | The eight Bridgewater Treatises were each written by an expert who could speak with authority on the evidence of design to be seen in his particular area . |
| 15 | They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard . |
| 16 | For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith . |
| 17 | On Jan. 19 Garcia and his wife were each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | Both leaders were each sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment and three years ' civil rights deprivation ( although an appeal court ordered Sadiq 's release immediately before the April election and he was again elected to Parliament — see p. 37388 ) . |
| 19 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 20 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 21 | On Feb. 27 , however , Ahipeaud and three other student leaders were each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment and fined 500,000 francs CFA ( about US$1,800 ) . |
| 22 | Today they were each sentenced to four years imprisonment . |
| 23 | Broadway and Green were each sentenced to 80 hours community service . |
| 24 | Broadway and Green were each sentenced to 80 hours community service . |
| 25 | Three white Zimbabweans were each sentenced on June 9 , 1989 , to 40 years ' imprisonment for taking part in bomb attacks in Harare in May 1986 by the South African Army on premises used by the then banned South African group the African National Congress ( ANC ) [ see p. 34662 ] . |
| 26 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
| 27 | Michel Garretta , director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre , and his chief assistant , Jean-Pierre Allain , were each sentenced on Oct. 23 to four years in prison for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 28 | Three skinheads were each sentenced in Frankfurt-an-der Oder on Sept. 14 to four years ' imprisonment for beating up three African immigrants , one of whom subsequently died , in Eberswalde in November 1991 . |
| 29 | Abu Taleb and Marten Imadi , two Palestinains living in Sweden , were each sentenced by a court in Uppsala to life imprisonment on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |
| 30 | For this promethean task the workers were each paid with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |