Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 2 | Some US$40,000,000 of the unfrozen aid was destined to be used to replenish foreign exchange reserves , pay for oil imports and pay off arrears to international organizations . |
| 3 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 4 | Up to US$100,000 a year in US aid was reported to be involved — about US$60,000,000 to be used for crop substitution programmes and the remainder for military training and equipment . |
| 5 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 6 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 7 | Similarly , in a major study of investment in the EC over the period 1961–90 , the relation between net investment and the rate of profitability per unit of capital stock was found to be highly significant . |
| 8 | The amount of time required to sort all the cards without actually considering the value of the card was calculated to be approximately 25 msecs . |
| 9 | You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back . |
| 10 | The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well . |
| 11 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 12 | A seaborne US Marine task force was reported to be heading towards Kuwait having completed a " dress rehearsal " amphibious assault on the southern shore of the Saudi Arabian peninsula . |
| 13 | With nearly half the votes counted , it was clear the outgoing four-party coalition was going to be hard put to get a working majority in the Rome parliament . |
| 14 | the district judge held that each defendant was bound to be found negligent . |
| 15 | By Nov. 24 the death toll was said to be 214 , with 300 seriously wounded . |
| 16 | James Butterworth followed the hooligan careers of similar boys — ‘ Sam Smiler ’ and ‘ Thomas Tiddler ’ — along with the apprenticeship of ‘ Tiddler Junior ’ , because the British hooligan was thought to be getting younger in his time , as in ours : |
| 17 | Gordon Carlisle , chairman of the Law Society of Scotland 's planning committee , and a partner in Glasgow firm McClure Naismith Anderson & Gardiner , said : ‘ The result was going to be something nobody could rely on but which would , nevertheless , affect land values and cause blight . |
| 18 | Where differences in the patches were observed , the chi-square significance test was applied : a statistically significant result was taken to be at the 95 per cent level of confidence ( p=0.05 ) . |
| 19 | Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget . |
| 20 | Oil revenue was expected to be 257,000 million francs CFA , with other revenue ( excluding loans ) set at 181,000 million francs CFA ; the investment budget was set at 102,000 million francs CFA . |
| 21 | Alice saw that murder was going to be done , and shrieked uselessly . |
| 22 | The First Wives Club was intended to be ‘ tongue-in-chic ’ , but it has struck a nerve . |
| 23 | The daily faecal bile acid excretion was found to be significantly higher in the polyp group compared with cancer patients , while the difference between the polyp group and controls was of borderline significance ( Table III ) . |
| 24 | Long before the sulphonamides were used as medicines , quinine was known to be a specific drug against malaria . |
| 25 | Although the SLORC promised to respect the result , the opposition was reported to be reluctant to claim victory before ascertaining the response of the country 's effective ruler Gen. Ne Win , and of the Directorate of the Defence Services Intelligence ( DDSI — the secret police ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 27 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 28 | Powered by six NK11As of 2,500hp each this strategic bomber was intended to be based in Hokkaido to carry out attacks on the Continental USA , using radar to ensure target identification at night or in bad weather . |
| 29 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 30 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |