Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s , a number of industrial initiatives were announced that were intended specifically to assist the older urban cores ( DoE and DE , 1987 ; DTI , 1988 ; HMSO , 1988a ) . |
| 3 | Planned comparisons of means of incremental areas were carried out using the multivariate general linear hypothesis to determine the substances that caused a significant increase in PYY and enteroglucagon concentrations from basal . |
| 4 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 5 | In addition , alternative segmentations were permitted thus increasing the lexical access component 's chances of finding a suitable path . |
| 6 | Faded blue velvet curtains , worn in places and with dust lying along the folds , were pushed back to allow the last of the light to enter the room . |
| 7 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 8 | The General Staff ; therefore , pressed for troops to be stationed in Kenya where the climate was more suitable and , in the wake of the Mau Mau campaign , where troops were needed anyway to reassure the White settlers . |
| 9 | What is doubtful is whether the survival of those phenomena and the tardiness with which they were abolished actually reinforced the political influence of mob violence . |
| 10 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 12 | After 5 min of stable oxygen saturation ( pulse oximetry ) , patients were crossed over to receive the other treatment . |
| 13 | The bulky leaves of ribwort planting were pulled apart to reveal the green leaf stalks . |
| 14 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |
| 15 | After two or three fairly neutral coloured inks had been used for the printing — say , brown for the foreground and blue for the sky and more distant scenery — the finishing was by hand , and washes of great subtlety and precision were laid on to give the desired effects . |
| 16 | ‘ Crowds would block a street simply to see Archer leave a hotel and take a cab ; when he married in January 1883 , special trains were laid on to bring the cheering crowds to Newmarket and Cambridge . |
| 17 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 18 | The societies had been created in 1964 out of the committees which were set up to organise the 1963 commemorations of the bicentenary of the birth of Wolfe Tone , the leader of the United Irishmen and martyr of the 1798 Rising . |
| 19 | Garments , blankets and shawls were knitted specially to fit the tiny babies in the Unit . |
| 20 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 21 | Research grants were worked out using the national research ratings published by the University Funding Council last year . |
| 22 | The Arches were subsequently cleared of infestation and the public were allowed in to view the prehistoric relics . |
| 23 | And there you see again in early B R days , er the er the station master 's house , and er er and the station itself , over here , the goods shed over there , the various track works coming across , the er line up to round here , and as I say the various sidings that were put in to accommodate the additional er colliery and other traffic . |
| 24 | Traffic congestion and parking problems caused by car boot sales could be reduced if the police were forewarned thus alleviating the considerable distress suffered by people living near to car boot sales sites . |
| 25 | Not for one moment did the two men believe that they would see anything , and they were determined not to allow the foggy weather to play havoc with their imaginations . |
| 26 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 27 | Regrettably , the Court of Appeal has no power in such cases to substitute its own award of damages , and the parties were sent away to face the expensive prospect of a fresh trial , which they avoided by agreeing that the damages should be £60,000 . |
| 28 | A hundred tapes and more than 800 workbooks were sent out to cover the 300-plus employees in company-owned stores . |
| 29 | Ukrainian sources claimed that ninety-two wagons of grain were collected from starving Ukrainian gubernii , of which thirty-six were sent off to feed the hungry in the Volga-Ural area . |
| 30 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |