Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hersant — later the ‘ bete noir ’ of many French journalists , and the press baron whom the socialists love to hate -was condemned for activities during the occupation as a collaborator in late 1945 and lost his civic rights . |
| 2 | The boxes were stacked on desks and tables and covered the floors as fast as the shelves were emptied . |
| 3 | The shelves on either side of the window behind the desk were stacked with files , directories and timetables . |
| 4 | They hung on walls , they leaned against each other in piles by the walls , they were stacked in corners . |
| 5 | Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic . |
| 6 | One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood . |
| 7 | Saturday afternoons , when the streets were solid with white faces , was a carnival of consumerism as goods were ripped from shelves . |
| 8 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 9 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 10 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 11 | The thick fingers were spattered with blobs of bright paint . |
| 12 | Now er the things that of course was er was only different skill using colours and patterns but y y you understand that the Fair Isles were developed on pins , and you notice the patterns were always small and I think you know the practical reasons for that . |
| 13 | In addition , some 90 ‘ equity share ’ dwellings were developed on sites owned originally by the local authority by the Enterprise 5 and Cheviot Housing Associations . |
| 14 | These were developed from qualities defined by Isaiah ( c.11 ) in his prophecy traditionally associated with the Incarnation , and interpreted by the Church Fathers as gifts of the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 16 | There are three other main bodies of English law : probate , Divorce , and Admiralty , which were developed in jurisdictions distinct from the Common Law Courts and the Court of Chancery . |
| 17 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 18 | Needless to say , none of these systems were developed by historians or with the historical user community particularly in view . |
| 19 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 20 | The revolutionary implications of utility were developed by radicals , and it is the interconnexion of governmental and radical reform that we must finally consider . |
| 21 | It is time that your creative talents were developed alongside individuals who are of like mind and outlook , and you could not wish for a better planetary set-up to further your aims and ambitions : the past few years have taught you all you need to know about self-survival . |
| 22 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 23 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 24 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 25 | At home the television reports were prefaced with warnings about the shocking content to give viewers the option of switching off . |
| 26 | The average breath CH 4 concentrations during the last three days of each test period were calculated for responders and non-responders separately ( Table I ) . |
| 27 | Adjusted rate ratios and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated for men and women separately by this method . |
| 28 | The mean times to ulcer healing were calculated for patients exposed to different risk factors , and the combined effects of the clinically relevant risk factors were assessed by calculating the two , four , and eight week healing rates and the mean times to healing in the presence of increasing numbers of risk factors . |
| 29 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 30 | Briefly , the count of argyrophil cells and the count of raster points coinciding on the mucosa were calculated in areas of standard length and whole thickness of mucosa . |