Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pent arrows took the air like a flight of hawks , and in the charging ranks across the river sudden gaps were ripped and flattened like corn before the wind . |
| 2 | Over 16,500 were born , and 13,135 were traced and studied in 1975 . |
| 3 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 4 | However little detailed research has been undertaken into how these innovations were developed and implemented , and this project will make use of the unique Company Archive of the Thomas cook organisation to investigate the detailed circumstances of product development in a crucial period of the Company 's development from 1850 to 1939 , during which the foundations of the modern tourist industry were laid . |
| 5 | During the late 1970s and early 1980s several innovative and more sophisticated approaches to smoking education in schools were developed and evaluated . |
| 6 | It is natural that some of these stories were developed and adapted to make the message of the Gospel relevant to people of differing backgrounds to the Jews . |
| 7 | There is a dispersed distribution of industrial estates within the county ( Shaw and Williams 1982b ) , which were developed and managed by a number of organizations including the Industrial Estates Corporation , the county and district councils and commercial establishments . |
| 8 | To address the varying needs of staff in different schools inservice sessions and workshop programmes on the following topics were developed and delivered . |
| 9 | Fortunately methods of antenatal diagnosis were developed and introduced in the 1980s , allowing parents to be offered termination of the abnormal fetus . |
| 10 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 11 | To handle all this , methods of matrix management and techno-economic planning were developed and introduced , with each establishment under a director but with programmes running across the line management of the establishments . |
| 12 | This was called in East Anglia jading a horse ; and it was from this practice more than any other that the horsemen sometimes earned the name of horse-witches because they were able to make the horse stand as though it were paralysed or bewitched . |
| 13 | The stalls were erected and dismantled every day so there was little likelihood of the arms being hidden beneath them . |
| 14 | By arrangement with the LMS Railway Company and the Buckinghamshire County Council , new laboratories were erected and equipped for the teaching of electrical engineering and allied subjects . |
| 15 | For comparison , the number of discharges because of liver cirrhosis ( ICD code 571 ) and gall stone disease ( ICD code 574 ) were also obtained , and the incidences were calculated as expressed above . |
| 16 | R H /R W ratios were calculated as described in Material and methods . |
| 17 | The superhelical densities of the samples obtained were calculated as described ( 19 ) , from the linking number difference between the centre of the topoisomer distribution of a given sample and the centre of the topoisomer distribution corresponding to relaxed DNA . |
| 18 | Recombination distances were calculated as described ( 40 ) using the computer program SPRETUS MADNESS developed by D.Dave ( Data Management Services Inc. , Frederick , MD ) and A.M.Buchberg ( NCI-FCRDC , ABL-BRP , Frederick , MD ) . |
| 19 | The adjustment factors for the 20 age and sex groups were calculated as follows : item age and sex group adjustment factor=average number of items given to each patient in the age and sex group/average number of items given to the total population ; cost age and sex group adjustment factor=average cost per patient in the age and sex group/average cost per patient in the total population . |
| 20 | Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid . |
| 21 | By February 1986 the government had announced fifteen separate changes to the way the unemployment figures were calculated and presented . |
| 22 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 23 | For the first time the problem of synthesising diamonds could now be expressed in terms of the ways the atoms were arranged and rearranged ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 24 | During their conference certain industry visits were arranged and following the opening of JM 's newest autocatalyst plant in South Africa , together with the investment interest the product invokes , a visit to our plant was considered highly appropriate . |
| 25 | The embalming procedures were explained and illustrated and he went on to show examples of vascular preservation and plastination of body parts and sections . |
| 26 | They were listed and marked on specially prepared maps ( 1/5000 scale ) and a full census of all residents was carried out shortly before the start of each trial . |
| 27 | The categories of handicap which were listed as requiring special provision were : blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially deaf , delicate/diabetic , educationally subnormal , epileptic , maladjusted , physically handicapped and children with special defects . |
| 28 | Of these , 190 were listed as threatened in two or more countries , and a further 304 as threatened globally . |
| 29 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 30 | The largest information technology companies were primarily telecommunications and hardware companies , and were listed as follows : |