Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 2 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 3 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 4 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 5 | The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 7 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 8 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 9 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 10 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 12 | His theology was , however , deeply unorthodox and , as we saw in Chapter I , he paid the highest price for wishing to supplant contemporary Roman Catholicism with an alternative religion , which he believed was of older pedigree . |
| 13 | The sentences were enlarged as much as possible , but sizeable gaps were left between each sentence so that the temptation to interpret contiguous sentences as meaningfully related was to some extent avoided . |
| 14 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 15 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 16 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 17 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 18 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 19 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 20 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 21 | Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing . |
| 22 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 23 | Until development of this system it was difficult to do pattern matching if movements being compared were over varying time periods . |
| 24 | The old Five Bells we know was of this date and is one of the buildings that can be identified . |
| 25 | By the late 1920s cattle stealing was of little concern to the authorities , but it underwent a revival with the onset of the depression , and received further impetus in 1936 when various regulations designed to control the movement and sale of cattle were lifted . |
| 26 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 27 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 28 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 29 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 30 | No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers . |