Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we learned the boys ' names they were referred to as the fair boy ; a positive attribute , and the fat boy ; a physical defect . |
| 2 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 3 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 4 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 5 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 6 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 7 | In 1986 Abdullah had vigorously suppressed unrest among black Mauritanians who claimed they were discriminated against by the Arab population [ see p. 35234 ] . |
| 8 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 10 | Ramsay found the Regent Douglas installed in Edinburgh Castle , with a host of lords and chiefs , including no fewer than six earls , a most illustrious company , waiting there while their forces massed and were added to on the adjacent Burgh Muir . |
| 11 | Thirteen men were missing and search parties were organised from amongst the trapped men and sent out to look for them . |
| 12 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 13 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 14 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 15 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 16 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 17 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 18 | We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift . |
| 19 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 20 | He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms : |
| 21 | After Cambrian times , most of the sediments were derived from within the Welsh Basin . |
| 22 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 23 | The Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) 1991 was enacted as a result of major dissatisfaction with the way in which those found mentally unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were dealt with under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity ) Act 1964 . |
| 24 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |
| 25 | Some of those suprasegmental features were dealt with in the previous chapter . |
| 26 | If the union found against him , that would indicate a minimum four-week ban , ruling him out of Wales 's opening home championship match against France next month — unless , that is , his case were dealt with within the next fortnight . |
| 27 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 28 | The regulations were provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 29 | This debate re-opens some of the issues that were touched upon in the first chapter concerning the nature of metaphysics and the argument that Ayer acts in a reductionist way by proscribing , in effect , certain interpretations of reality . |
| 30 | Randle and Pottle were proceeded against under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 which contains no special provisions in relation to literary benefits . |