Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 2 | That particular day 's sailings between England and Ireland were delayed owing to bad weather so the mail was accountably held up and delays caused . |
| 3 | But it also appears that the bishops who were consulted replied with considerable enthusiasm , proposing a much wider agenda than that originally intended . |
| 4 | The thinking behind it , according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , is to enable you to have a ‘ piece of paper ’ explaining why you were dismissed to show to prospective employers . |
| 5 | Some in the North East , such as Washington , were intended to act as regional growth centres . |
| 6 | The Social Democrats were expected to emerge on top thanks to traditional backing from workers in the industrial south . |
| 7 | Women writers were expected to remain within strict bounds of modesty . |
| 8 | They were forbidden to go into certain areas and they were n't allowed to have passports . |
| 9 | In a move which further alarmed environmentalists , Dunkel suggested in a recent speech that international environmental agreements [ such as the Montreal Protocol ] could be challenged by GATT if they were deemed to interfere with free trade accords . |
| 10 | Neither did the remaining reduced core of electors identifying with the Labour Party subscribe with any unanimity to the proposals of the party 's left wing , which were designed to capitalise on anti-Heath radicalism and extend it in an anti-capitalist direction . |
| 11 | Certainly they are powerful examples of how meditations on the Passion were designed to work in inner experience and they illuminate aspects of the " form " of contemplative living in ways characteristic of Rolle . |
| 12 | Despite the deployment of 100,000 paramilitary troops and police , to forestall what Army Chief of Staff General Mirza Aslam Beg had claimed on Oct.1 was " an extremely dangerous " plot to disrupt the elections , 39 people were reported killed in separate incidents during the two days of polling . |
| 13 | In Karnataka at least 16 people , mostly Tamils , were reported killed in violent incidents on Dec. 11-13 after the Cauvary [ River ] Water Dispute Tribunal ordered the state to allocate a significant amount of water annually to Tamil Nadu . |
| 14 | More than 13 people were reported killed in sectarian violence between militant Shias and members of the extremist Sunni organization , the Sipah-i-Sabahah-i-Pakistan ( SSP ) in Lahore , Gilgit , Jhang and Karachi during May and June . |
| 15 | In the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) between 20 and 30 people were reported killed in tribal shootouts in late June , while election violence in Azad Jammu and Kashmir [ see below ] resulted in the deaths of another 20 people . |
| 16 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 17 | Its use in the liturgy was at first opposed by the papacy , but , following the Council of Split in 1079 , both the Old Church Slavonic language and the glagolitic script were permitted to exist in central Dalmatia . |
| 18 | The argument , which was accepted by the Democrats , reasoned that as the territories ' representatives were permitted to vote in legislative committees they should , therefore , be entitled to vote in the committee of the whole . |
| 19 | For the first time 18- and 19-year-olds were permitted to vote in national parliamentary elections [ see p. 38110 ] . |
| 20 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 21 | Pressure on consultants to work faster , participate in audit and management , and accept financial responsibility for their clinical work , coupled with the reduction in junior doctors ' hours , were considered to militate against educational developments . |
| 22 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 23 | Several Air France planes were cancelled owing to bad weather and they were forced to book seats with a private line . |
| 24 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 25 | Even sentences such as " Men exist " and " Dragons are fictional " were said to offend against certain logical proprieties and were replaced by suitably quantified paraphrases . |
| 26 | In addition , some primary school teachers who held ‘ O ’ level certificates were upgraded to teach in secondary schools . |
| 27 | On Oct. 4 six men were sentenced to death for trafficking in cannabis and on Nov. 9 five men , aged between 35 and 46 , were sentenced to hang for similar offences [ see also pp. 34485 ; 36557 ] . |
| 28 | Even as the mills were seen to decline in useful service , so too were the churches . |
| 29 | For the inspectorate tended to initiate a prosecution only against firms who had ‘ unsatisfactory attitudes ’ ; others whose violations were seen to stem from adverse economic circumstances , or from some other extenuating condition were not prosecuted . |
| 30 | Patients were evaluated according to endoscopic result , early and late functional success , necessity for repeat endoscopic treatment , and dose rate of laser energy required to control intraluminal tumour ( averaged laser energy per month ) . |