Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 2 | Isolated in this small square well in the deck , they were exposed to anything the elements cared to throw at them . |
| 3 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 4 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 5 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 6 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 7 | Farmers had suffered from both the depressing consequences of over-production and the uncertainty of what the future held for them , and ever more bewildering changes were imposed on them every year . |
| 8 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 9 | Conversely , circumstances , related to proportions of national circulation , were defined in which a newspaper publisher might own one or two television stations . |
| 10 | They were not authorized to sell the goods pledged to them however perishable , which meant that many vexatious and expensive lawsuits were commenced against them every day . |
| 11 | Such control was obviously necessary if he were to develop within himself the capacity to enjoy the vastly increased range of pleasures that could be derived from his expanding emotions . |
| 12 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 13 | He had white hair and looked very nice , and soon they were waving to him every morning . |
| 14 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 15 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 16 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 17 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 18 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 19 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |