Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After 5 min of stable oxygen saturation ( pulse oximetry ) , patients were crossed over to receive the other treatment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | During this time several charities were set up to help the poor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Research grants were worked out using the national research ratings published by the University Funding Council last year . |
| 14 | The Arches were subsequently cleared of infestation and the public were allowed in to view the prehistoric relics . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A hundred tapes and more than 800 workbooks were sent out to cover the 300-plus employees in company-owned stores . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 19 | Only once the verdicts were read out did the tormented families get a clue about why Allitt attacked defenceless babies , becoming Britain 's worst woman serial killer this century . |