Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Around him , knowing people , people who were born eating this stuff , are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |
| 17 | It may be fair enough for those people who retire at 60 or 65 , but consider those who were forced to take early retirement or who were sick and have now recovered . ’ |
| 18 | This campaign was directed principally at naturalized Englishmen of German and Jewish extraction who were thought to have conflicting loyalties . |
| 19 | He was playing a Nubian slave , a centurion and a sentinel in the forthcoming production , each of whom were required to utter such lines as ‘ The sacred white cat has been stolen ’ and ‘ Woe ! |