Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every town and village , and most large estates , had natural or man-made ponds on which matches were arranged as often as the weather allowed . |
| 2 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 3 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 4 | Two High Court judges upheld the right of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to refuse payouts to two women because they were sought too long after the abuse took place . |
| 5 | The house and park were made as late as the 1870s . |
| 6 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 7 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 8 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 9 | They were squashed even further when the other two joined them for coffee and later in the bar . |
| 10 | And they were laid off I mean squads were laid off even before the boat was anywhere near finished . |
| 11 | The important point is that by Interpretation 2 we mean that , on the whole , the deltaic deposits shown in the centre of the diagram were laid down later than the fluviatile deposits but earlier than the offshore deposits . |
| 12 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 13 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 14 | The perceived benefits of fundholding were mentioned more often than the perceived costs . |
| 15 | If the assets of the testator 's estate were not sufficient to pay both his creditors and all the bequests he had left , then first the creditors were satisfied in full , and afterwards the beneficiaries by legacy or trust were paid so far as the estate would allow . |