Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation . |
| 3 | The sheer weight of dicta amassed was intimidating , but Mr. Ashworth conceded he could find no authority actually binding on me . |
| 4 | ( 1984 ) reported that the prevalence of dementia amongst assessable residents in the twelve homes studied was 38 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Let us not attach too much weight to it , because the overall response rate from the 18 district health authorities surveyed was 15 per cent . |
| 8 | One of the dualities noted was that of hard/soft ; another was that of difficult/easy . |
| 9 | A petition of right to cover the duties paid was unsuccessful . |
| 10 | The tally of religious paintings and statues lost was immense . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , much of what the new Scottish Festival Singers did was disappointing . |
| 13 | Boy crushed by a wall his parents said was dangerous . |
| 14 | ‘ It was all about finding how far people can go and what these crews achieved was amazing . |
| 15 | The size of crowds assembled was considerable ; although the evidence is impressionistic they must have commonly numbered several hundreds and perhaps , on occasion , more than a thousand . |
| 16 | Fifteen years ago , many of the cases SAVE was involved with caused ridicule amongst our critics . |
| 17 | It says the dose of steroids used was appropriate to achieve the anti-inflammatory effect required … it also says that the side effects were discussed . |
| 18 | Gelbard was reported to have warned US officials in September that he would be the target of an assassination attempt , which Bolivian officials believed was due to take place on Dec. 10 to coincide with the anniversary of the extradition of former Interior Minister Luis Arce Gómez to the US on drug trafficking charges [ see pp. 37487-8 ] . |
| 19 | The inconvenience these excavations caused was second only to that created by the dust storms . |
| 20 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 21 | But the number of elephants involved was 17 — not easily divisible in those proportions . |
| 22 | I made my way carefully down the staircase , intending to sit in the sun at the foot of the wall and drink my tea , but the breeze could find no way there , and the strange , musky smell from the wall where those plants grew was stronger than ever . |
| 23 | She adds : ‘ You would n't castigate the British servicemen who appeared on the television during the Gulf war and said that whatever Saddam Hussein did was good and whatever the Allies did was bad . |
| 24 | The ratio of seats won was 17:9:1 , yet the spread of votes was much closer producing a rough ratio of 3:2 : 2 . |
| 25 | Last October Paul Biya won Cameroon 's presidential election , in a vote that observers said was fraudulent . |
| 26 | Eleven of 36 male CLO patients had never smoked and of those who had smoked the median pack years accumulated was 15 ( mean 20.3 , range 5–60 pack years ) . |
| 27 | Much of the 21 000 tonnes of ore that Wheal Concord 's workers excavated was richer in tin than comparable deposits in Cornwall . |
| 28 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 29 | The number of years qualified was unrelated to initial skills . |
| 30 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |