Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It does raise a very important matter because in the B C C I inquiry , it was quite obvious er that parts of Price Waterhouse were n't fully aware of what other parts of Pri Price Waterhouse were doing and indeed worse than that and in fairness to Price Waterhouse , some of the regulators in different parts of the world did n't know what each other w w were doing and the only people that did know what was happening were the principals behind B C C I who exploited that situation . |
| 32 | Antibodies to HEV were detected with Diagnostic Biotechnology 's HEV ELISA ( supplied by Genelabs Technologies ) . |
| 33 | Antibodies to HEV were found in 80 ( 5.9% ) of 1350 subjects . |
| 34 | I drank too much at dinner and missed whole stretches of conversation , noting at one point with tipsy clarity that people who could converse were a great boon to the inarticulate who yet , when in the company of their tongue-tied fellows , felt it essential to say something . |
| 35 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 36 | The equipment which saved Ray was bought by the Thame business United Biscuits , and some of the staff who contributed were also at the pub today to meet the man who owes his life to their generosity . |
| 37 | Those which were dropped were not necessarily false . |
| 38 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 39 | Appeals by defence lawyers for the charges to be dropped were rejected by the prosecution , and federal judge Royce Lamberth , who had presided over the initial trial , set Oct. 19 as the date for George 's re-trial . |
| 40 | However , when the squad was announced the only players that were dropped were Ian Snodin ( naturally ) and Tony Cottee ( who was being a scapegoat for the umpteenth time ) . |
| 41 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 42 | The crimes which had been committed were manifestly the work of hardened professionals who had no more to do with the incestuous dramas of this city than Zen himself . |
| 43 | As widely scattered were over a hundred thousand prisoners of war or internees , who had to be tracked down , liberated , and succoured . |
| 44 | For example , conditions necessary for seeds to germinate were often studied in much the same way by successive age groups . |
| 45 | The fish and chips he did buy were simply scrumptious . |
| 46 | Well they would buy Were a a breed of men , as far as I know , used to wear what they called moleskin trousers . |
| 47 | Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere . |
| 48 | He argued that Minton 's desire to describe outweighed his impulse to compose ; objects too literally reported were not sufficiently re-created . |
| 49 | Three measures not previously reported were also collected . |
| 50 | Patients or controls with a history of diseases in which hyposplenism has been reported were excluded ( coeliac disease , inflammatory bowel disease , thyrotoxicosis , rheumatoid arthritis and connective tissue diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus ) . |
| 51 | When , for example , I discovered that 90 per cent of those attending a workshop did not become Moonies , it seemed clear that any brainwashing techniques that the movement was employing were , to say the least , not very efficient . |
| 52 | Independent predictors of anti-HEV were age over 25 years , less than elementary education , antibodies to hepatitis C virus , and residence in the warmest region ( Adana ) . |
| 53 | However , where , as was the case with Akzo 's pricing policy , the prices charged were below average total cost ( that is , including fixed costs ) but above average variable cost , they could only be considered predatory if they were established as part of a plan to eliminate competitors . |
| 54 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 55 | Privately the words he used were ‘ I 'll be jiggered . |
| 56 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 57 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 58 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 59 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
| 60 | The terms used were ESN(S) , or severely educationally sub-normal , and ESN(M) , variously used to describe mild , moderate or medium handicaps . |