Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects were presented with a computer controlled tone in one ear and had to match this tone through movements of the tongue which were transduced so as to produce a sound which was relayed to the other ear . |
| 2 | Parents , teachers and pupils from Guiting Power primary school near Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire lobbied county councillors who were to decide today whether to shut it . |
| 3 | You were supplementing rather than competing with other musical institutions and also indirectly benefiting other orchestras ? |
| 4 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 5 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 6 | The cohorts now past retirement age , it must be remembered , had the experience of childhood during the inter-war depression years and then young adulthood in the war , when they were encouraged rather than discouraged from smoking . |
| 7 | There was something funny about his tone of voice , almost as if he were asking rather than telling her . |