Example sentences of "others were [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were given warm water for soup , and on complaining were harshly told to work harder . |
| 2 | Given a relatively lenient sentence of 18 years ( Jiang Qing and others were given suspended death sentences ) , Chen was later released from jail ‘ in consideration of age and poor health ’ . |
| 3 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 4 | People knew what standards were and when they and , more particularly , others were falling short of them . |
| 5 | He , his wife , his son and five bodyguards died , and 11 others were reported wounded , when two helicopter gunships attacked his motorcade at Sharquiyya , 20 km from Tyre and 30 km from the Israeli border , firing five wire-guided missiles and setting his car ablaze . |
| 6 | Four others were scattered motionless on the green turf some thirty yards away . |
| 7 | The Gay Centre in Glasgow was deteriorating socially , so much so that it was coming to the state where women and others were feeling oppressed by the atmosphere created by insensitive youths who seemed to believe the Centre , including the back room ( our only meeting-place ) , was their seven-nights-a-week preserve . |
| 8 | Saunders and three others were found guilty ( in a trial in 1990 ) on charges of conspiracy , theft and false accounting . |
| 9 | Two devices were discovered in the morning and the others were found last night . |
| 10 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 11 | Only three SSDs had a strategy for helping disabled people to achieve independent living ; three others were preparing one . |
| 12 | Taste aversion learning could thus be an important part of the protection enjoyed by mimics , so Nicolaus set out to see whether it would protect eggs from crows , Some eggs were painted bright green and others were left untouched , to act as controls . |
| 13 | Er , a few others were offering seven to nine and most of the others were offering between ten and fifteen percent . |
| 14 | Some of the others were wounded some time ago . |