Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | Thence to the Chamber , where the bodies were stacked carefully and , in my view , counter-intuitively , with babies and children at the base of the pile , then the women and the elderly , and then the men . |
| 3 | Don Peters knew when he went to the podium that the odds were stacked heavily against him gaining the support of Nate Cocello and the committee . |
| 4 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 5 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 6 | The odds were stacked too heavily against him . |
| 7 | Ace glanced around , noting the clay bottles and pots sealed with wax that were stacked together in rickety cupboards . |
| 8 | This is a large village with earthworks on the periphery which were excavated initially by David Hall in advance of redevelopment for houses . |
| 9 | Within seconds of each other , the two remaining freighters were ripped apart in great swathes of flame , sending white hot metal and sprays of burning oil through the cavern . |
| 10 | Bollards , decks and railings were ripped up . |
| 11 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 12 | The floorboards of the house were ripped up , and there they were . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 14 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 15 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
| 16 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 17 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 18 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 19 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 20 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 21 | At the same time , increasing interest in language led to a succession of BEd courses with strong language components in Colleges of Education ( work in the Birmingham area , led by Professor John Sinclair , part of which is described in Mary Willes ' paper on pp. xx-xx , was particularly notable , but similar innovations were developed elsewhere ) . |
| 22 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 23 | Agronomic techniques were developed rather later than mechanical ones , following the identification of the importance of rainsplash as a major element in the erosion process . |
| 24 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 25 | The Belfast methods , on the other hand , were developed primarily for the study of closeknit communities — and indeed it is likely that they are particularly and rather generally suitable for urban or rural communities of this type . |
| 26 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 27 | The initial conceptual models were developed almost intuitively , based on the idea that , for a College to be self-sufficient , the income received must be at least equal to the cost of providing the further education courses at the required level . |
| 28 | These ideas were developed further when , as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in MacDonald 's second Labour government , Mosley was involved in the work of the ‘ Thomas ’ Committee to deal with unemployment . |
| 29 | At this time the agricultural techniques and crafts seen in the Early Minoan period were developed further . |
| 30 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |