Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During contests , photographers were policed and only two were allowed in the water at any one time . |
| 32 | By the next day the railways were paralysed and Paris bus stations , metro lines and post offices had been occupied . |
| 33 | This was called in East Anglia jading a horse ; and it was from this practice more than any other that the horsemen sometimes earned the name of horse-witches because they were able to make the horse stand as though it were paralysed or bewitched . |
| 34 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 35 | Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages . |
| 36 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 37 | By arrangement with the LMS Railway Company and the Buckinghamshire County Council , new laboratories were erected and equipped for the teaching of electrical engineering and allied subjects . |
| 38 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 39 | Violent incidents erupted , barricades were erected and cars burned , over 100 people including 23 police were taken to hospital with injuries or breathing difficulties due to tear gas , and three dead bodies were recovered from a building set on fire by a Molotov cocktail . |
| 40 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 41 | The stalls were erected and dismantled every day so there was little likelihood of the arms being hidden beneath them . |
| 42 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 43 | So some were hated as insensitive and disciplinarian , while others were remembered as models or guiding influences through relationships of striking tenderness and intimacy . |
| 44 | For ages 0–14 and 15–24 age standardised rates were calculated as simple averages of the age specific rates for the five year age groups they contained . |
| 45 | The adjustment factors for the 20 age and sex groups were calculated as follows : item age and sex group adjustment factor=average number of items given to each patient in the age and sex group/average number of items given to the total population ; cost age and sex group adjustment factor=average cost per patient in the age and sex group/average cost per patient in the total population . |
| 46 | R H /R W ratios were calculated as described in Material and methods . |
| 47 | The superhelical densities of the samples obtained were calculated as described ( 19 ) , from the linking number difference between the centre of the topoisomer distribution of a given sample and the centre of the topoisomer distribution corresponding to relaxed DNA . |
| 48 | Therefore the abilities of the whole intraperitoneal fluids to deconjugate PABA-UDCA disulphate were calculated as 0 mg , 0.02 mg , 3.57 mg , 0.04 mg , 10.44 mg , and 16.30 mg in the respective patients . |
| 49 | For comparison , the number of discharges because of liver cirrhosis ( ICD code 571 ) and gall stone disease ( ICD code 574 ) were also obtained , and the incidences were calculated as expressed above . |
| 50 | The hypochromicity factors ( F ) [ d(CGCAATCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGATTGCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGCXXTCG) F = 0.8 ; d(CGXTTGCG) F = 0.7 ] were calculated as previously described ( 14 ) and used to calculate concentrations of the single strands using published ( 15 ) extinction coefficients of the nucleosides ( ε 260 d 3C A = 11.1 10 3 mol -1 lcm -1 ) . |
| 51 | Recombination distances were calculated as described ( 40 ) using the computer program SPRETUS MADNESS developed by D.Dave ( Data Management Services Inc. , Frederick , MD ) and A.M.Buchberg ( NCI-FCRDC , ABL-BRP , Frederick , MD ) . |
| 52 | Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid . |
| 53 | Odds ratios were calculated and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounding by age at diagnosis and calendar period . |
| 54 | Specificity and sensitivity values were calculated and statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test for non-parametric data . |
| 55 | By February 1986 the government had announced fifteen separate changes to the way the unemployment figures were calculated and presented . |
| 56 | A probability of <0.05 was considered significant ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) were calculated where appropriate . |
| 57 | If so , it was very successful , for the incensed Bishop of London reported the matter to Charles I , who had the offenders brought before the Court of High Commission , where they were reprimanded and heavily fined . |
| 58 | During the early years of the organization 's existence , these problems were foreseen and a discussion paper which proposed a simple computer based manpower information system was written in 1971 . |
| 59 | With the benefit of hindsight it is possible at a later stage to determine whether the strategy provided a safeguard against these forces and , if not , whether the reasons were foreseen or at least foreseeable . |
| 60 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |