Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the reasons given were genuine and clear , it would be easy for unscrupulous shoppers ( in a later application ) to apply in terms which avoided the pitfall . |
| 2 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 3 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 4 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 7 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 8 | The sheer weight of dicta amassed was intimidating , but Mr. Ashworth conceded he could find no authority actually binding on me . |
| 9 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 10 | Maximum serum bilirubin concentrations recorded were comparable , but one infant in the random group received an exchange transfusion for hyperbilirubinaemia . |
| 11 | The parameters established were good predicators , and the more the cultural barriers to adjustment , the less the satisfaction in these countries . |
| 12 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 13 | Thirdly , even if the stupendous funds demanded were available , should one not look a little more carefully at the begging queue ? |
| 14 | The title of the lecture in which these words appeared was Art-history as an Academic Study , but those were early days for the subject in the British Isles ; only in London was there undergraduate teaching , at the Courtauld Institute which opened in 1933 . |
| 15 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 16 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |
| 17 | It may be doubted , however , whether there would be anything in the nature of a public good or public interest defence available as a result of this provision , much less a defence that the words uttered were true . |
| 18 | Stories began to emerge about maintenance and logistical problems , to the effect that only 20 of the original 84 Tomcats supplied were operational by 1981 ( and no more than 40–50 aircraft altogether ) . |
| 19 | The songs chosen were simple and appropriate for the occasion . |
| 20 | Early in the twentieth century these figures were replaced by police statistics which , unlike the earlier series , included cases for which there was no specific accused person , but excluded cases which the authorities believed were false . |
| 21 | Shetland Engineers Limited were involved with the Brent surge tank refurbishment . |
| 22 | The inhibiting antibodies used were monospecific , showed on cross reactivity , and blocked maximum standard urokinase type plasminogen activator and tissue type plasminogen activator activity completely . |
| 23 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 24 | A petition of right to cover the duties paid was unsuccessful . |
| 25 | The limb bones collected were unbroken ( Append . |
| 26 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 27 | The tally of religious paintings and statues lost was immense . |
| 28 | Although some of our E coli isolates were hydrophobic and others expressed mannose resistant adhesins for HEp-2 cells , these two properties were not related . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |
| 30 | However , much of what the new Scottish Festival Singers did was disappointing . |