Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A superficial cancer of the bladder was detected during transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate and a caecal cancer was found on barium enema examination in a patient with iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 2 | It is suggestive , for example , that in Copernicus 's native Poland , a sun-centered cosmology was taught in Protestant schools many years before it was taught to Catholics . |
| 3 | It had also been studied in America , with the result that the cylindrical wheel was recommended for high speed work . |
| 4 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 5 | What he did not , of course , add was that he intended to exacerbate that instability by every means in his power while making certain that external isolation was added to internal dysfunction . |
| 6 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |
| 7 | The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort . |
| 8 | There is a school of thought that claims that the ghetto was cleared for commercial rather than health reasons . |
| 9 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 10 | A strong association was found between low self-esteem and current adverse circumstances with both relating to an increased risk of developing clinical depression in the following year . |
| 11 | A modest negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and availability of attachment and social integration . |
| 12 | However , a much stronger negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and the perceived adequacy of social relationships . |
| 13 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 14 | The thinking was done at various times before — and will , no doubt , be re-done by the reader . |
| 15 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 16 | This nocturnal rhythm was bisected with sexual rhythms and the rhythms of crosstown , crosscountry , transworld movement . |
| 17 | As a family 's income rose , so the cash aid was withdrawn at different rates for different members of the sample . |
| 18 | The Jewish Brigade was composed of ardent Zionists who carried their missionary zeal through the displaced persons camps of Europe . |
| 19 | Things were very different 40 years ago when 50pc of housing stock was rented from private landlords . |
| 20 | By the time that the deal was presented to Unionist MPs on 12 November , two important developments had taken place . |
| 21 | And , referring to assurances that no deal was struck with Unionist MPs , he said : ‘ We accept their words on that . ’ |
| 22 | The friendly deal was struck after lengthy negotiations between lawyers and Official Solicitor David Venables , the girl 's court-appointed guardian . |
| 23 | Sun 's Scott McNealy says the deal was forged after long-term discussions on how the two companies could work together . |
| 24 | A German journalist was killed in northern Croatia on July 26 . |
| 25 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 26 | This experiment was repeated for different pellets from the same sample when fresh ( wet ) and when dry . |
| 27 | The experiment was repeated in successive years , using two cars in 1953 . |
| 28 | The Urey-Miller experiment was repeated by Israeli researchers Askiba and Burit Bar-nun at Cornell University , by subjecting ammonia , ethane and water vapour to a shock wave . |
| 29 | Contemporary perception was influenced by immediate demands and needs and these served indirectly to reinforce the determination to play a leading role in the world — a determination based on desire rather than understanding . |
| 30 | MICHAEL HEMSLEY was nearing the end of his nine-year navy contract when the Task Force was put on red alert . |