Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages . |
| 2 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 3 | With the benefit of hindsight it is possible at a later stage to determine whether the strategy provided a safeguard against these forces and , if not , whether the reasons were foreseen or at least foreseeable . |
| 4 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 5 | Very little very few apprentices were sacked unless through misdemeanour or anything but if you done your work you were there to as long as you you liked . |
| 6 | On day 1 2 , 5 , 10 , 20 , 50 , and 100 ml of milk were given and on day 2 the normal milk intake appropriate for age was started . |
| 7 | As an observer of that scene , I think that , when history is accurately written , there will be great tribute to the manner in which help , encouragement and advice of considerable quality were given and to the mobilising of the western world to accept that change was taking place . |
| 8 | Amongst the Arab coalition forces the Saudi Arabian losses were given as at least 26 killed ( 19 of whom died in the Iraqi attack on Khafji — see p. 37938 ) and 10 missing ; Egyptian as 19 killed and 74 wounded ; and six dead from the United Arab Emirates . |
| 9 | Moreover , the damages were given as at the date of the judgment , not the contract , so that a successful plaintiff would have the benefit of any inflation in values between the two dates . |
| 10 | Guidelines were given as to the type of person suitable for interview and the names provided were a representative sample . |
| 11 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 12 | At the 1985 Special Commission , various estimates were given as to the length of time taken to comply with a Letter of Request . |
| 13 | Both V16s were withdrawn because of a gearbox problem in practice . |
| 14 | No doubt Eliot 's own fears and uncertainty were compounded when in June a bomb fell upon the offices of Faber and Faber ( fortunately , he was not up on the roof at the time ) . |
| 15 | Unlike Tamar , her horizons were limited and in her opinion her daughter 's remarks were almost blasphemous . |
| 16 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 17 | Divorce , prostitution and women 's emancipation were designated as outside the parameters of political discourse , and MPs customarily prefaced speeches on these topics by apologizing to the house for intruding on parliamentary time . |
| 18 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 19 | They were regarded as at best degenerate and self-indulgent , and at worst as vicious . |
| 20 | The tunnels , track arrangements , and loop lines were regarded as among the greatest engineering marvels of the age , and more engineers flocked to see them than any other contemporary achievement , even including the Panama Canal . |
| 21 | As princes saw it , it was a just war in the fullest sense of the term ; those who were slaughtered in its battles were regarded as among the martyrs of the church . |
| 22 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 23 | Yet by the middle of the sixteenth century , if not earlier , the geographical distinction had become blurred in fact , since a number of medreses in the were treated as of the grade while certain medreses in the kenar were treated as of the grade . |
| 24 | Yet by the middle of the sixteenth century , if not earlier , the geographical distinction had become blurred in fact , since a number of medreses in the were treated as of the grade while certain medreses in the kenar were treated as of the grade . |
| 25 | In addition , we eliminated from the study all patients who were referred because of reflux symptoms even though they had asthma . |
| 26 | One hundred and seven patients , 102 ( 95% ) of whom had had a vagotomy or partial gastrectomy ( Table I ) , were referred because of suspected rapid gastric emptying as a cause or feature of dumping syndrome and diarrhoea , or both ( Table I ) . |
| 27 | In 1901 the Social Revolutionaries were formed and in 1903 the Liberal Party and Social Democrats were established . |
| 28 | limitation point er it was held at one of general or continuing duty obtain an independent firm of solicitors to the option on every occasion on which they were consulted as to a possible exercise on such occasions whether in fact be issued it goes on . |
| 29 | During 1992 twice as many new carriers or AIDS patients were diagnosed as in 1991 . |
| 30 | This , however , was the political and intellectual world to which our young colonials were exposed and from where they developed their own particular world views . |