Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | Our studies were designed to determine whether transient UOS relaxations occur during gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 3 | On March 11 at least 28 guerrillas were reported killed when Turkish troops and helicopters attacked a PKK base near Genc , in eastern Turkey . |
| 4 | A couple of paragraphs of lay anthropology were added to suggest that black people in Africa had accomplished ‘ virtually nothing ’ before ‘ the White Man came ’ . |
| 5 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 6 | The social structure arising from the interactions between the birds was thus an expression of individual adaptedness and formed an important societal component of the environment in which individuals were seeking to survive and procreate descendants . |
| 7 | Both Annie and Elizabeth were disturbed to find that each morning brought fresh fox tracks circling the hen huts . |
| 8 | These findings were used to see whether appropriate timing of octreotide injections with respect to meal ingestion might avert impaired gall bladder contraction . |
| 9 | Indeed some Americans were beginning to question whether either government was making the right choices . |
| 10 | Bread prices were beginning to rise and industrial disputes were entering very bitter phases in several large occupations , including coal heavers , silk weavers and sailors . |
| 11 | They were monitored to ensure that similar posts received similar assessments and also that they were " sensible " bearing in mind the position of various jobs within their hierarchies . |
| 12 | Initially young pupils were asked to decide whether one thing came before or after another , without reference to precise dates . |
| 13 | All the villages in Bohemia were asked to contribute but one village , afraid the eggs would get broken , hard-boiled them first . |
| 14 | They were asked to indicate whether various assertions ( such as " An hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " ) were true , possibly true , or untrue . |
| 15 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 16 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 17 | Those who love their cricket history were forced to concede that this kind of combat could not be surpassed for entertainment . |
| 18 | They were encouraged to believe that external agents would tackle the problem of a territorial settlement . |
| 19 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 20 | Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors . |