Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value and the duration of the OEM contract was not disclosed . |
| 2 | ‘ THERE ‘ e goes again ! ’ muttered the Old Stager , as the Computer Programmer was caught in the slips for 32 in our last match of the season . |
| 3 | The Snogogram building was n't really a building , it was a converted railway arch . |
| 4 | The defence story was emphasised that she |
| 5 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 6 | A NEW hi-tech window sealant from Courtaulds Aerospace Commercial Products Division was launched simultaneously in the UK and US in February . |
| 7 | Monday brought another very sparse attendance , though the noise level was punishing , thanks to the non-stop chanting of the Pakistan supporters by the scoreboard . |
| 8 | Noise level was about average for an electric machine , certainly quieter than petrol-driven models . |
| 9 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 10 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 11 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 12 | Runners-up were the National Deaf Club of London and the Brighton Branch was adjudged third . |
| 13 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |
| 14 | On the same day the implied yield on the September government-bond futures contract was over 5% . |
| 15 | Therefore , ignoring transactions costs and taxation , an arbitrage profit of £547.60 per futures contract was available by selling futures and buying shares . |
| 16 | In 1977 the US T-bond futures contract was launched ; it is now the world 's most successful futures contract . |
| 17 | In November 1991 the CME 's eurodollar futures contract was the first one to exceed the one million contracts open interest , i.e. number of contracts outstanding . |
| 18 | An SMI index futures contract was introduced in November 1990 , and is trading healthily . |
| 19 | This chapter briefly discusses the characteristics of the research students returning questionnaires to IMS as part of the assessment of the initial employment destinations of information engineering research students whose SERC grant support was due to end in 1984 . |
| 20 | There were not many people about and the cinema park was lined with a meagre row or two of takers . |
| 21 | Where in the detective short story ingenuity was , in principle , the only quality called for , in the crime short story ingenuity has to be at the service of imagination . |
| 22 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 23 | With accuracy of recognition as the dependent variable a left field advantage was found by Hilliard ( 1973 ) , Ellis and Shepherd ( 1975 ) , Jones ( 1979 ) and Leehey and Cahn ( 1979 ) . |
| 24 | In the second case , however , a significant right field advantage was found for males over females in verbal ability , but no significant difference was found between males and females in advantage between visual fields . |
| 25 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 26 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 27 | Held , granting the applications and remitting the case to the magistrates , the essence of the defence case was an allegation that the prosecutor had dishonestly contrived to manipulate the prosecution process so as to avoid the consequences of the legislation which brought the applicants within the custody time limit regulations . |
| 28 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |
| 29 | However , this 23% reduction was achieved by giving large doses ( 300 units/kg daily ) at a cost of Canadian $3938 per patient , yet one-third of the patients still required transfusion . |
| 30 | Guildford skatepark was demolished and as a result Farnborough was noticed for the first time outside the immediate area . |