Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago . |
| 2 | All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 3 | Thus her choice of the quaint word , ‘ sweet ’ is no coincidence ; sweetness is the quality Victorian men were taught to prize in a woman above all others . |
| 4 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 5 | They were expected to continue for a month , with a 10-day break in early September . |
| 6 | Attempts to rationalize production [ see p. 36635 ] did not , however , hold up prices which were expected to fall to an average of US$1,600 per tonne in the second half of 1989 . |
| 7 | The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention . |
| 8 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 9 | At a subsequent season they were less keen when they found they were expected to work on a raft near the famous Sporting Club . |
| 10 | However 3,076 prisoners and 1,731 others on parole were expected to benefit from a pardon law , details of which were published on May 14 . |
| 11 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 12 | Three people were reported killed during a shoot-out in Lomé on Nov. 27 between police and demonstrators who responded to a general strike call launched on Nov. 16 by the Collectif des syndicats indépendants and the Collective of the Democratic Opposition-2 ( COD-2 ) [ for May general strike see p. 38901 ] . |
| 13 | Seven people were reported killed in a series of pre-dawn air raids on two Croat villages , which Yugoslav army commanders said were in retaliation for attacks on an air base in the regional centre of Mostar nearby . |
| 14 | A total of 13 government troops were reported killed in a clash with FARC guerrillas on March 5 , but the Army claimed to have killed an important FARC commander , Alonso Cortes , in Cauca department on March 15 and were reported to have killed 30 FARC and EPL guerrillas in a clash on April 26 destroying 16 of their camps . |
| 15 | The level of violence in Kashmir appeared to be rising , one of the worst incidents taking place on Aug. 11 when 28 militants were reported killed in an attack on a military convoy . |
| 16 | On the same day 45 soldiers were reported killed in an LTTE ambush , and on May 5 an LTTE suicide commando attacked a government naval vessel , killing the five crew members . |
| 17 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |
| 18 | Only last night three men were seen breaking into a car . |
| 19 | Nuclei were prepared according to a procedure which gives transcriptionally active , intact nuclei ( 23 ) . |
| 20 | Four animals in each group were matched based on a compromise between weight and age . |
| 21 | New recruits of one futures selling bucket shop were made to listen to a tape recording of a " model " sales presentation . |
| 22 | If you got into trouble you were made to sit on a chair and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day . |
| 23 | We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice . |
| 24 | They were told to enter in a book the goods and income of all men . |
| 25 | Rough terraces of seats were fashioned to serve as an auditorium . |
| 26 | Since many of these problem drug users were known to have taken or be taking more than one drug , they were classified according to a hierarchy of six drug-use categories , in order to simplify the numerous kinds of polydrug use exhibited . |
| 27 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 28 | Later that evening both men were invited to sit on a Questions Panel . |
| 29 | In 1987 , with the approval of the local medical and optical committees , Islington general practitioners and optometrists were invited to participate in a pilot prompting project . |
| 30 | The dispersal of people to increasingly distant suburbs and the growing concentrations of service industries in city centres were bound to lead to a re-invasion by young professionals and executives of inner areas long abandoned to the working class … |