Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 2 | Before entry into the study , each patient had a cystoscopy and at that time the number and position of tumours within the bladder were noted , the largest tumour was measured in two diameters and was resected into muscle , one tumour was selected as a , a reference tumour and left in situ and all the rest of the tumours were resected . |
| 3 | Longitudinal sonograms of the gall bladder were recorded on film . |
| 4 | Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point . |
| 5 | The contents of the gall bladder were emptied and 2 ml normal saline injected . |
| 6 | Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded . |
| 7 | Long axis and transverse images of the gall bladder were obtained and the volume calculated , using the ellipsoid method , from the following formula : |
| 8 | Third , the fortunes of the new cosmology were more deeply affected by the antagonism between Catholic and Reformed Christianity than by the doctrinal peculiarities of either . |
| 9 | This is all that 's left of the bedroom in which four month old twins Bethany and charlotte were sleeping . |
| 10 | Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area . |
| 11 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 12 | Since healing and religion were interrelated , the smoking of sick people ( to exorcise evil spirits ) became one of the earliest forms of medicine . |
| 13 | If discipline and religion were central to the BB philosophy , so too was friendship — it was the Trojan horse in which ‘ influence ’ hid , awaiting its opportunity . |
| 14 | Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question . |
| 15 | It is almost certainly true to say that there never was any significant period when god worship and religion were as modern man would wish them to be , but instead , that they have always been corrupted , to some extent , to support greed and excess . |
| 16 | Marriage and religion were discussed and deplored . |
| 17 | This ambiguity of language helps to explain why so many interpretations of Wordsworth 's philosophy and religion were able to arise . |
| 18 | Those Communist regimes which tried to ban religion were known for their cruelty . |
| 19 | In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy . |
| 20 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 21 | As in france , communism , pacifism or religion were just as likely to mark the outlook of those who had experienced the camaraderie , fear and gore of trench warfare . |
| 22 | Even if the most eminent natural philosophers of the seventeenth century were laymen , it would still not follow that all connections between science and religion were severed . |
| 23 | Rich deme evidence comes from Eleusis , one of the proudest and most important of the deme sites , partly because of its sanctuary to Demeter and Kore where the cults of the great Eleusinian mystery religion were performed , partly because of a too often forgotten feature of the place : its defences . |
| 24 | Her ideas on religion were not very developed . |
| 25 | Her job , her leisure , her religion were devoted to being a provider of at best health and knowledge , at the least of time or food . |
| 26 | In Chapter 2 , 11 aspects of contemporary society which can cause trouble for religion were outlined . |
| 27 | well obviously they were going to teach me religion were n't they ? |
| 28 | There is strong evidence from Butler and Stokes ' surveys that housing tenure over-determines party support , in relation to ‘ occupational class ’ : in council housing only 51 per cent of those in occupational classes I-IV with a partisan self-image were found to be Tories , as against 76 per cent in owner-occupied housing . |
| 29 | Whilst we were very pleased with its towing capabilities and cruising speed were were extremely disappointed with its ability to pull up the slightest incline . |
| 30 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |