Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mobility of each polypeptide of the expressed proteins on SDS-PAGE , the M.wt. of r74s containing the C-terminal sequence down to the 435th , 356th , 256th , 205th , 136th and 73rd amino acid were calculated to be 74 , 62 , 32 , 27 , 21 and 16kDa , respectively . |
| 2 | During the placebo experiments basal serum gastrin was 10 ( 1 ) pM , meal stimulated serum gastrin values peaked at 54 ( 4 ) pM , while integrated meal stimulated serum gastrin responses were calculated to be 157 ( 13 ) pM/hour ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 3 | Those who , like Newman Hall , let Gothic design take over , were criticized for being imitative and for demeaning the sermon . |
| 4 | We were taught to be polite and pleasant . ’ |
| 5 | We were taught to be thrifty . |
| 6 | The increase in the dividend and presumably the optimistic implication about the bank 's future earning ability or the possibility that past investment policies were proving to be injudicious ? |
| 7 | This period around 1967 was the time of the big change-over in the airline business from piston engines to jets , so it was clear that the programme I had selfishly pursued for my own good was in fact a proper course to follow for all Ops inspectors if they were to continue to be able to do their work effectively . |
| 8 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 9 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 10 | These were intended to be interim arrangements only , and further negotiations took place to try to establish the bases of a more lasting political union . |
| 11 | The 1984 arrangements , though subject to considerable criticism , were intended to be transitional . |
| 12 | In terms of the impulse for social reform which motivated many of these surveys , such facts were intended to be difficult to rebut by erstwhile opponents of reform . |
| 13 | New Bold college could n't prevent its students from going along and some young Seventh Day Adventists were predisposed to be receptive . |
| 14 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 15 | At a news conference on May 5 a member of the Cuban Communist Party political bureau , Carlos Lage Dávila , stated that projected imports for 1992 were expected to be 58 per cent down on 1991 and that imported fuel would total 6,000,000 tonnes compared with the previous " usual " annual figure of 13,300,000 tonnes . |
| 16 | In experiments on rats it has been shown that where experimenters expected rats to be maze-bright , the rats fulfilled their expectation and where they were expected to be maze-dull the rats also fulfilled expectations . |
| 17 | According to the Samuelson hypothesis , the values of β were expected to be negative . |
| 18 | They were expected to be decorative and subservient . |
| 19 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 20 | Younger players in particular were expected to be clean-living . |
| 21 | Military commissions were in demand in Scotland , and Scottish politicians were expected to be able to satisfy their friends , and with an almost constant 25 per cent of the officer corps drawn from Scotland they clearly succeeded to an astonishing degree in obtaining positions for their countrymen . |
| 22 | The company was fully bonded and all 1,400 holidaymakers currently overseas on skiing trips in France and Austria with its subsidiary , Kaleidoscope , were expected to be able to complete their holidays while those with bookings would be reimbursed . |
| 23 | While the values of α ( which represents an estimate of the volatility of the spot market ) , were expected to be positive , in general they were not significantly different from zero . |
| 24 | On fundamental questions of doctrine or canon law their decisions were expected to be unanimous . |
| 25 | The long-term financial savings generated by the cuts were expected to be modest . |
| 26 | It also approved a law easing restrictions on joint ventures , which was criticized by foreign investors as not addressing the problem that joint ventures were expected to be self-sufficient in foreign exchange . |
| 27 | According to an International Wheat Council report in April 1989 , world wheat stocks at the end of the 1988-90 season were expected to be 103,000,000 tonnes — down from 135,000,000 tonnes at the end of the previous year — with the biggest decline being in US stocks [ see p. 36280 ] . |
| 28 | In Essex , a spokesman for the Eastern National bus company said its normal services between major towns were expected to be adequate to meet any additional demand due to the strike . |
| 29 | A church could derive both prestige and wealth from possessing the relics of a major saint , whose devotees were expected to be generous in their donations of land and precious metal . |
| 30 | Men were expected to be unfaithful . |