Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question . |
| 2 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 3 | The sandstone rocks along its western side were known to be porous , but the engineers predicted that the pores would be blocked by silt . |
| 4 | It was widely felt , while the Bill was passing into law , that the programmes of study were going to be inflexibly prescriptive . |
| 5 | Wells calculates that as approximately two-thirds of teenage pregnancies going to full term were reported to be unplanned in a study in South West England , effective contraception therefore has the potential for avoiding 76,000 unwanted teenage pregnancies each year . |
| 6 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 7 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 8 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 9 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 10 | of the crew of a British fishing boat were required to be of British or other Community nationality , only extended to vessels fishing within British fishery limits because of the problems of enforcement outside United Kingdom jurisdiction . |
| 11 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 12 | Only letter strings which appeared in this dictionary were considered to be correct . |
| 13 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 14 | The powers of the president were expected to be redefined in the new constitution currently being drafted and scheduled to be approved in 1991 . |
| 15 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 16 | Some US$40,000,000 of the unfrozen aid was destined to be used to replenish foreign exchange reserves , pay for oil imports and pay off arrears to international organizations . |
| 17 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 18 | Up to US$100,000 a year in US aid was reported to be involved — about US$60,000,000 to be used for crop substitution programmes and the remainder for military training and equipment . |
| 19 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 20 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 21 | Similarly , in a major study of investment in the EC over the period 1961–90 , the relation between net investment and the rate of profitability per unit of capital stock was found to be highly significant . |
| 22 | According to the Bible , Samuel 1:5 , the Ark was desecrated by being placed in the Temple of Dagan , and Samson destroyed both the temple and the statue of the god in retribution before dying there himself . |
| 23 | The amount of time required to sort all the cards without actually considering the value of the card was calculated to be approximately 25 msecs . |
| 24 | You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back . |
| 25 | The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well . |
| 26 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 27 | A seaborne US Marine task force was reported to be heading towards Kuwait having completed a " dress rehearsal " amphibious assault on the southern shore of the Saudi Arabian peninsula . |
| 28 | With nearly half the votes counted , it was clear the outgoing four-party coalition was going to be hard put to get a working majority in the Rome parliament . |
| 29 | the district judge held that each defendant was bound to be found negligent . |
| 30 | By Nov. 24 the death toll was said to be 214 , with 300 seriously wounded . |