Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I were used to do that sort of work , and er |
| 2 | Intensive surface geophysical surveys comprising galvanic resistivity , electromagnetic ( including TEM ) , magnetic and radiometric measurements were made at four sites in where strong photolineaments , which were assumed to indicate regional-scale faulting , have been recognised . |
| 3 | Twenty years later at least four major families of drugs were widely used , as well as a considerable number of supporting agents which were believed to help some patients in particular circumstances . |
| 4 | I can only say I was shocked and disgusted by the conditions in the factory , which were seen to constitute definite health and safety hazards . |
| 5 | De Gaulle used the extraordinary powers granted to him in June to introduce a set of major economic measures , which were intended to remedy these problems and to show France and the world that a state worthy of the name was now in charge . |
| 6 | One line of evidence is the fact that severe ‘ inner city ’ deprivation is no longer to be found just in older urban areas but also in the outer council-housing estates on the edges of cities which were built to house inner city residents displaced by renewal programmes ( CES Ltd , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | It is also interesting to notice that although it was the back bed needles which were used to create this pattern , the design actually shows on the front . |
| 8 | The cattle of Belgium owe much to Dutch and British breeds , particularly the Friesian types and the Shorthorn , which were used to improve local stock and create the national Belgian breeds , the most famous of which today must be the double-muscled Belgian Blue . |
| 9 | A tower where Robert Watson-Watt carried out the early experiments with radar can still be seen , as can the crumbling remains of the curious Pergola-style buildings which were used to test nuclear triggers following the Second World War . |
| 10 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 11 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 12 | The budget contained details of an array of tax changes — outlined in the State of the Union speech [ see above ] — which were designed to stimulate economic growth . |
| 13 | A series of peripheral boulevards was begun , though not finished before 1870 , which were designed to provide easy access to the central area at the desired point of entry . |
| 14 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 15 | Springs or wells which were found to have healing properties were especially venerated , and towns such as Bath , with its famous Roman baths , developed . |
| 16 | How fortunate that dear Ruby was discovered by Hansom and Luckey and not by ignorant persons , such as those dreadful Russians who were discovered feeding mammoth steaks to their dogs . |
| 17 | Fortunately , there always seemed to be a hard core of people who were determined to breathe new life into a tradition that had started with phenomenal success in 1892 under its first president , Billy Hutchinson , of Redcar . |
| 18 | Around him , knowing people , people who were born eating this stuff , are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way . |
| 19 | Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations . |
| 20 | Child deaths were identified at the time of the home visits , and also through a network of about 100 key informants — members of the study community who were asked to record all pregnancies , births , and child deaths in their area . |
| 21 | She worked with groups of college undergraduates who were asked to write four-minute stories in response to several verbal cues , of which the following was the sixth , |
| 22 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 23 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 24 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 25 | A further eight patients with Wegener 's granulomatosis who were known to have circulating anti-neutrophil circulating antibody ( ANCA ) as determined by the standard immunofluorescent method were also tested . |
| 26 | I was privileged to have been one of the 28 guests , which included 11 veterans of the Tirpitz raids , who were invaded to attend these events . |
| 27 | We have been able to show in this population based study that at least 10% ( 12/123 ) of subjects over 40 years did not have a bowel cancer , including two cases who were found to have multiple polyps at 66 and 69 years of age , but no carcinoma . |
| 28 | Two of the three patients who were found to have coeliac disease were over 70 years old suggesting that this diagnosis should not be dismissed because of the patients age when iron deficiency is being investigated . |
| 29 | Iron deficiency was not proved in five patients who were found to have duodenal ulcer , myelomatosis , giardiasis with partial villous atrophy , hepatocellular carcinoma , and menorrhagia . |
| 30 | He has never admitted an awareness of Earth Mysteries as an inspiration for his work , but the walking of straight lines echoes not only leys but also the task of the Gaia Programme monitors who were required to take regular readings on straight lines out from ancient sites . |