Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 2 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 3 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 4 | President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera suffered a severe setback to his privatization programme , a central plank of his free-market economic policy , when on Dec. 13 five laws providing for the sale of public companies were overwhelmingly rejected in a national referendum . |
| 5 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 6 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 7 | Gould , in marked contrast , had managed to enlist 298 subscribers for his Himalayan Birds , all of whom were successfully pursued by the efficient and persistent Mr Prince . |
| 8 | In 106 of these patients ( 72.6% ) the stones were successfully retrieved by the standard technique of sphincterotomy and basket or balloon extraction . |
| 9 | After scrambling along a series of dark and dusty corridors which were lit only by Apanage 's lantern and the feeble light of the moon fighting its way through filthy skylights , Cleo and Dauntless were eventually led into a spacious attic . |
| 10 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 11 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 12 | Once again , there were several guest players in a New South Wales Country team which performed with great energy and enthusiasm , although the country boys were eventually subdued by a rampant Scottish pack . |
| 13 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 14 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 15 | These were eventually embodied in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 . |
| 16 | Some people , he explained , still wrongly believed that bodies were removed from coffins before being cremated and that ashes were eventually taken from a communal pile . |
| 17 | In only a few areas were there significant differences of political attitude between richer and poorer peasants , and these were wholly overshadowed by a common antipathy towards the landed nobility and determination to see their land transferred into peasant hands . |
| 18 | Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table . |
| 19 | They claimed that the courts were inadequately served by the new social services departments . |
| 20 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 21 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 22 | Either by nationalisation or by the creation of new industries , SOEs were widely regarded as an essential feature of managing the ‘ commanding heights ’ of the economy . |
| 23 | The excise laws were widely regarded by the Irish as unnecessarily strict , and they certainly resulted in harsh repressive measures being taken by excise officers , often in conjunction with military forces , although there is ample evidence that both sides resorted to violence at times . |
| 24 | Nailing was an exception , but women and children were widely employed in the light metal wares of Birmingham . |
| 25 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 26 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 27 | Since the communists were widely seen as an anti-national party , free elections would have been a disaster . |
| 28 | In January 1990 tense relations between the Justice Ministry and the warders ' unions , as well as low staff morale , were widely seen as the indirect cause of a series of 28 prison escapes in six weeks . |
| 29 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 30 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |