Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Comprehensive quality-assurance procedures for the onsite measurements were developed for this project .
2 They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk .
3 For example , non-Christian religions were developed in more detail , and in many places a user was able to treat his own country or religion as the preferred category .
4 Someone reading the latest work on the control of food intake , for example , might be puzzled at the amount of effort that went into understanding the effects of hypothalamic lesions on eating and at the theories that were erected around those experiments .
5 Barricades blocked the main streets and were erected in many neighbourhoods .
6 Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface .
7 Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface .
8 To see which variables were related to a subject recalling a junction , point biserial correlations were calculated with each junction being scored as a 1 for a subject that recalled it and 0 for a subject that did not .
9 These were calculated with both companies facing 75 per cent experience curves and discount rates of 15 per cent .
10 Drexel assets were calculated at some $2,600 million and it was agreed to divide these between the bank 's creditors and the various litigants .
11 Sensitivity , specificity , and accuracy were calculated for each finding for each age group .
12 Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) .
13 Using the method recommended by Dunlap , Jones and Bittner ( 1983 ) correlations were calculated for each subject individually across the 24 films used in this study , correlations were then averaged for the 48 subjects using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver & Dunlap 1987 ) .
14 In comparing mean daily prevalence rates of morbidity between vitamin A and placebo groups in the Health Study , separate daily prevalence rates were calculated for each child for each of the intervals between dosing points .
15 To examine further the association of age and anti-HEV , prevalence rates were calculated for each decade .
16 Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method .
17 Crude relapse rates were calculated for each treatment using the method suggested by Kuirata , ( 100×number of relapses detected in 12 months , divided by the number recruited ) and were compared using a χ 2 test .
18 Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests .
19 Expected numbers were calculated for each group standardised for age , sex , and time period Observed numbers were treated as data from a Poisson distribution with mean equal to the number expected .
20 The liquid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated from these fits .
21 The correlation between risk ratings , accident estimates and the other 10 scales were calculated in each case .
22 But if my own suspicions were aroused at that moment , Lord Darlington evidently did not share them .
23 Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings .
24 The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . "
25 Some American officials at the banquet were dumbfounded by this testament .
26 By the kindest count , seven catches were grassed at Auckland , and six more chances were spilled on this opening day , with Gooch missed twice off Cairns before reaching double figures , after a 90-minute delay while the groundstaff mopped up the previous day 's heavy rain .
27 Parler brought with him the influence of the Cologne school and , though only the choir and chapels with part of the south façade were completed at this time , it is interesting to compare , both on exterior and interior , the work of Matthias on the lower part and Parler on the upper ( 532 and 533 ) .
28 More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million .
29 Huy would need Merymose 's help if he were to proceed in that direction .
30 ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’
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