Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Barricades blocked the main streets and were erected in many neighbourhoods . |
| 3 | These were calculated with both companies facing 75 per cent experience curves and discount rates of 15 per cent . |
| 4 | The liquid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated from these fits . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 7 | Enemy machine guns were firing from all directions . |
| 8 | Guns were firing from both sides across the Harbour and also from ships . |
| 9 | After about a week of this behaviour , and some digging , the pair spawned on the vertical side of this rock , laying several hundred thread-stalked brown eggs , which were guarded by both parents . |
| 10 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 11 | In 1958 the foreign exchange restrictions left over from the immediate post-war period were eased in many countries in Western Europe . |
| 12 | Moscovitch ( 1972 ; 1973 ) presented subjects with a set of unrelated letters which were heard through both ears . |
| 13 | The commercial banks , along with some members on the IMF executive board , warned that if the IMF agreement were ratified under these circumstances , it would send a clear signal to other debtor countries that they could reach agreements without having to meet their interest liabilities . |
| 14 | Traditionally , the notion of personal response and what the Newbolt Report called ‘ literature as a living thing ’ were regarded by all schools as at the heart of English study , but there is no place for them in Zapp 's perspective . |
| 15 | At that time , strikes were regarded by most members of the middle class as conspiracies against the established order , as sometimes they may have been ; but this particular stoppage , concerning itself chiefly with man 's natural being and constitution , seemed to Eliot to be quite different from the normal down-tools affair . |
| 16 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 17 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 18 | The saddest story relates to Canoe Store of Emsworth who were struggling like many others . |
| 19 | They also wanted to talk about Mr Lee 's policy for dealing with the action group , and asked that a meeting should take place as quickly as possible ; no replies were received to these letters , and the requests were made repeatedly . |
| 20 | Heavy losses were sustained by both sides . |
| 21 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 22 | On the following Saturday two car trains were assigned to both destinations . |
| 23 | Health and safety inspectors had visited the site after an anonymous phone call from a woman expressing her concern that ‘ people in this day and age were exposed to such dangers . ’ |
| 24 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 25 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 26 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 27 | Iraqi claims that the oil had been released by allied attacks on two Iraqi tankers on Jan. 22 were dismissed by most commentators . |
| 28 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 29 | Plans for a ‘ funding pool ’ to finance placements in all sectors were favoured by most agencies , which responded to a recent CCETSW survey . |
| 30 | Similarly , some coins of the Emperor Septimius Severus which were minted at several cities in southern Greece are found , almost exclusively , in the Levant . |