Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 2 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |
| 3 | Resochin was not pursued at that time , but both compounds were duly registered for purposes of patenting . |
| 4 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 5 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 6 | Village colleges were successfully established in Cambridgeshire in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 7 | But other hostels were successfully established in areas of outstanding beauty or interest , often in historic , unusual buildings . |
| 8 | The largely vertical tears , ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length , were successfully repaired in time for the opening of the exhibition . |
| 9 | Finally , the slides were weakly stained with haematoxylin for one minute before dehydrating and mounting in Xam ( BDH , Poole ) . |
| 10 | Lord Denning 's views on the liberation of the Court of Appeal from the obligation to follow its own previous decisions were crushingly rebuffed in Davis v Johnson ( [ 1979 ] AC 264 ) in which the authority of Young v. |
| 11 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 12 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 13 | These mesons were eventually discovered in experiments with cosmic rays — energetic particles from outer space — in 1947 . |
| 14 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 15 | The children were eventually admitted into care as a result of neglect . |
| 16 | The Millbank paper-mill and its equipment were eventually offered for sale by auction in October 1804 , thereby ending the possibility of England challenging the European paper industry by using more easily available materials for making paper . |
| 17 | A few sequences were eventually used in BT in modified or abbreviated form . |
| 18 | These were loosely based on aspects of service management and |
| 19 | It commenced activity from 1 October 1991 on the transfer , a gift from the Chartered Institute of Transport ( ‘ The Institute ’ ) of those assets which were wholly employed in activities of the Institute in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 21 | Prison Department divisions were widely criticized by governors for appearing to operate in isolation , each pursuing their own areas of interest without regard to the priorities of other divisions and establishment needs . |
| 22 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 23 | The moves were widely seen as part of an attempt to end the 15-year civil war by meeting conditions demanded by the opposition UNITA rebels . |
| 24 | Meager ( 1986 ) showed that in 1984 such employment strategies were widely applied in relation to personal service , office and manual workers and to some extent to the recruitment of managerial , technical and professional staff . |
| 25 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 26 | Studies of five individual multi-plant firms by Peck and Townsend ( 1984 , 1987 ) showed how their reductions in employment were fundamentally related to changes in fairly specific market niches , but how the effect of any one factor in the future of a factory was usually contingent upon others . |
| 27 | While crucial to an assessment of the reality of middle class women 's experience , these differences in income and status within the middle class did not affect the prescriptions meted out to middle class women , which were fundamentally rooted in theories of sexual difference and the idea of separate spheres . |
| 28 | Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps . |
| 29 | In 1989 mines run by the state-owned Centromín mining concern ( a leading producer of zinc , lead , silver and copper ) were badly affected by sabotage by Sendero Luminoso , which caused the main mine , Morococha , to close throughout September . |
| 30 | Many of the victims , of course , were badly burned after death by the fires that swept the town , but even those that died in the open showed severe burns on their bodies , even though in many cases their clothes were not even singed . |