Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 2 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 3 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 4 | In the West Sussex examples , at least , the villages themselves were placed firmly on the Greensand belt . |
| 5 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 6 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 7 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 8 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 9 | Six smugglers , including William Carter , were hanged together on the Broyle outside Chichester on 19 January 1749 and their bodies gibbeted in chains around the county as a grim warning to other would-be smugglers . |
| 10 | The manufacturers of the robot arm have not advertised in the hobby electronics press for a long time and a disadvantage of their interface was that both software and hardware were designed specifically for the BBC computer . |
| 11 | Other disturbances , widely regarded as ‘ copycat ’ , were reported elsewhere in the West Midlands , for example in Moseley , Wolverhampton , and Coventry , and in the St Paul 's district of Bristol . |
| 12 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a European reprieve were shattered yesterday at a FIFA meeting in Switzerland . |
| 13 | Everyone , even newspaper editors , were caught unawares by the Princess Diana phenomenon . |
| 14 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 15 | The major innovation — reaping , harvesting and mowing machines — were confined largely to the United States , where labour was short and fields were large . |
| 16 | The lectures were organised jointly by the Tayside Section of the RSC and the St Andrews chemistry department , with financial support from BP Research International and the RSC . |
| 17 | I have read Primo Levi 's experience at Auschwitz and I produced a series of paintings based on the Holocaust which were exhibited together at the Mercury Gallery . |
| 18 | In Newcastle on Tuesday , the challenges of Lyapunov 's scoring were met magnificently by the Philharmonia under the young Finnish conducter Esa-Pekka Salonen . |
| 19 | In this study , pathological examination of the necropsy specimens showed that amyloid deposits in the myenteric plexuses were seen only in the AA cases . |
| 20 | The problems of changing from a forty year old state economy to a free market were presented recently at the HCIMA London Branch German Dinner , held in the University of North London Training Restaurant by Horst Leyer representing HCIMA Germany . |
| 21 | No home or social background reports were prepared either before the Orkney snatch or afterwards . |
| 22 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 23 | The scenes of prelates ' foibles and military history were collected avidly by the Tafts , Vanderbilts , Walters and Hyams , as well as Queen Victoria . |
| 24 | Basic questions resulting from the takeover were collected together by the Glenpatrick News from all corners of Glenpatrick Works and are answered by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive . |
| 25 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 26 | The demographic and clinical characteristics were compared statistically by the Wilcoxon rank sum test ( age , ulcer history , pain score ) or Fisher 's exact test ( gender , smoker , alcohol use ) and the results of treatment by Fischer 's exact test or the log-rank test ( pain relief ) . |
| 27 | On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house . |
| 28 | Red Pandas are known for being very choosy but thanks to an international stud agency , the animal worlds equivalent of Blind Date , Mansolu abnd Tongfei were brought together at The Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | They were sponsored successively by the DHSS , NHS National Training Council and NHS Training Authority . |
| 30 | The Teessiders were led home by the Durham County Boys Clubs junior champion , Alan Aitchison , who finished in 28th position . |