Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few were noted as making prolonged stays and it is difficult to assign any particular record as a wintering or passage bird . |
| 2 | ‘ A few were tortured and executed in secret . |
| 3 | Some were beaten and tortured first . |
| 4 | Some were given or sold to favoured high-ranking officials and court favourites , a practice developed by Constantius II . |
| 5 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 6 | Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate . |
| 7 | Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground . |
| 8 | Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death . |
| 9 | Some were crying and screaming . |
| 10 | Some were imprisoned or banished when they refused to be silenced . |
| 11 | This was displayed and stored on an IBM compatible computer ( PC 1640 , Amstrad Inc ) . |
| 12 | This was made and erected in March 1831 , and painted by the Shotts Iron Co for £133.10s.0d. ( £133.50 ) . |
| 13 | This was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday 25 June 1922 at 11 am . |
| 14 | This was planned but abandoned in a fifth patient when a suitable heart became available . |
| 15 | In practice , this was operationalized as making complex verbal requests ( even though the people served had almost no receptive or expressive language ) , and de-emphasizing ordinary household activities as sources of possible client involvement . |
| 16 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |
| 17 | When this was faced and dealt with under regression therapy , the whole situation , including the shoulder spasm , was resolved . |
| 18 | This was developed and coupled to an experimental hierarchical modeller . |
| 19 | The key to this was seen as establishing close links with the private sector ’ ( Moore , 1986 , p. 9 ) . |
| 20 | It enshrined the so-called " precautionary principle " , agreeing that lack of scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to halt environmental degradation ( this was seen as directed in part at the US administration 's reluctance to agree to action to combat global warming ) . |
| 21 | It enshrined the so-called " precautionary principle " , arguing that lack of scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to halt environmental degradation ( this was seen as directed in part at the US Administration 's reluctance to agree to action to combat global warming ) . |
| 22 | This was achieved whilst maintaining an appropriate level of investment for the future in design , manufacture and plant . ’ |
| 23 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
| 24 | Birmingham was quite independent of the party and as late as 1929 was not afraid to show its independence : in that year Neville Chamberlain complained bitterly when he discovered that the Party Chairman had written to businesses in Birmingham for contributions to party funds , for this was regarded as poaching from local preserves . |
| 25 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 26 | This was do or die for Gloucester . |
| 27 | I was surprised to find that she had such a rich and violent internal life and that all this was smouldering and seething away . |
| 28 | This was rebuilt and served as the German Embassy during the Nazi occupation of Prague . |
| 29 | This was rebuilt and updated . |
| 30 | All this was continued and extended during his year in America . |