Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 9 | An additional comment , raised during the plenary session , was that those from ethnic communities were rarely seen as a positive resource able to offer a new expertise , but that , rather , they were regarded as being doubly disadvantaged in that they were often seen as not being fluent users of English and not being part of the British culture . |
| 10 | They were badly printed by a local printer , and few read them . |
| 11 | Letter segmentation and recognition were effectively combined into a single operation by Tappert ( Tappert , 1982 ) who matched segments against stored letter prototypes and evaluated recognition at all possible segmentations . |
| 12 | Politically , the democratic aspirations of the popular — radical tradition were effectively contained within a Liberal movement dominated nationally by middle class and aristocratic elites , and the Conservatives mobilised many working-class Tories into their camp . |
| 13 | Ireland missed a hatful of opportunities yesterday , as did the French , who were constantly foiled by a magnificent display of goalkeeping from Cork Harlequins player Ivan Bateman . |
| 14 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 15 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 16 | When Miss Garnett 's Project team set about producing a curriculum guide to the study of local churches , they were greatly assisted by a schematic study or flow-chart of possible work that might arise , devised for them by Mrs Mary Ball of the Leicester Museum . |
| 17 | Here was a circumstance where a great number of foreigners , who would be unable to speak the local language , whose customs would be regarded with suspicion , and whose mariner of worship differed significantly , were suddenly thrust upon a remote community . |
| 18 | My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a terrific roar . |
| 19 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 20 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 21 | His footballing skills were obviously allied to a questionable temperament , and in January 1985 Frank McAvennie lived up to his immense promise , becoming the first Scottish footballer to be sent off in a Premier league match for giving a ‘ V ’ sign to the opposing fans . |
| 22 | Villages were normally assessed as a single unit and the distribution of the burden by the village hierarchy was often highly inequitable . |
| 23 | The more valuable pieces were normally kept in a safe , Newley told them . |
| 24 | Interior walls were normally coated with a fine lime plaster . |
| 25 | In the early part of the eighteenth century , amputations were generally performed by a circular incision perpendicular to the limb . |
| 26 | Plans drawn up by Mr. Gilbert Bullimore were soon unveiled for a new Science Block , to be built by the side of the tennis courts . |
| 27 | Kaolin , or ‘ china clay ’ , is formed by the decomposition of granite , and Cornwall and Dartmoor were found to have huge deposits which were soon exploited on a large scale . |
| 28 | After years of struggle against the French , in 1946 the Syrians secured independence but were soon engaged in a new conflict — with the state of Israel created on the ruins of neighbouring Palestine . |
| 29 | The initial tendency , on the part of both government and public , to assume that the Jacobite adventure would soon peter out , was replaced , as the news of the fall of Edinburgh and Cope 's defeat at Prestonpans sank in , by feelings of outrage and alarm , which were soon expressed in a fervent outburst of patriotism . |
| 30 | Also at Killingworth at that time was George Stephenson [ q.v. ] , fourteen years older than Wood , and the two were soon drawn into a lasting friendship by their mutual interests and ambitions . |