Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They feared for the safety of relatives and friends who were traced while the three men spent months under medical treatment at Broomfield Hospital . |
| 2 | At this high level , it was only possible to make a broad assessment of these requirements , and further ideas were developed as the study progressed to lower levels of detail . |
| 3 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 4 | Mr Bergg said suspicions were aroused when the people asking questions had a vested interest in getting a certain answer . |
| 5 | The worst fears of the residents were realised as the port was an immediate commercial success and heavy traffic quickly built up . |
| 6 | Its worst fears were realised when the carcass of a badger was found in a nature reserve south of Buckingham . |
| 7 | When this system was used the clipping and storing of the fleeces were completed while the sun was off the yard . |
| 8 | Questionnaires were completed as the end of the course approached . |
| 9 | During the run , correct answers were checked before the stimulus cards were put into the tachistoscope and the appropriate trial ticked if the subject got the answer correct . |
| 10 | Occupying Guadalcanal among other Solomon Islands , they were checked when the invasion fleet had to be recalled before reaching Port Moresby , for an American naval task force , despite heavy losses , turned back the Japanese fleet on 5 May in the battle of the Coral Sea 300 miles ( 550km ) south of Guadalcanal . |
| 11 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 12 | In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers . |
| 13 | Pulses were given until the vessel had been flattened and turned dark . |
| 14 | Two further charges of driving without a valid licence and without insurance were withdrawn after the court was told Youds had produced the relevant documents . |
| 15 | The posters were withdrawn after the tobacco industry sued the city council . |
| 16 | Not as strong as all that , however ; for if the internal difficulties were eased because the government 's hand was strengthened by the plebiscite , the problems of making the new Constitution work did not go away . |
| 17 | Two thousand eight hundred objections were received after the council announced its plans to site its new town hall at the Hazelbank park . |
| 18 | Reynolds 's role in the deposition should be regarded as creditable rather than shameful , for his oath and loyalty to the king were sustained until the cause was obviously lost ; at that point his concern for public order , for the good of the church and the realm , dictated his choice of acquiescence instead of futile hostility . |
| 19 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 20 | The lifeboats were recalled after the crew of Breydon Merchant had been winched to safety by two helicopters from Manston and Lee-on-Solent . |
| 21 | As in the previous experiment , significantly more words were recalled when the title was presented before the passage . |
| 22 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 23 | Between 38 to 20 million years ago large sections of the present-day west coast were formed when a chunk of a long-vanished continent adhered to the coastline . |
| 24 | The passage and the cavern were formed where a stream of water used to flow along a bedding plane between layers of limestone . |
| 25 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 26 | HUNDREDS of homes were wrecked when a massive car bomb blasted the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's forensic centre in Belfast last night . |
| 27 | Many faiths were broken before the people became convinced of the truth of the Myrcans ’ mission , but after a while , when no Myrcan had turned against the righteous lords , and they had not tried to usurp the rule of the Dales and the Vale , then they were at last accepted . |
| 28 | Nowadays all serious conditions were diagnosed before the child was born and steps taken either to correct them or to abort the foetus . |
| 29 | Making their way through the extensive 4th floor they were stopped when a massive explosive caused them to hit the floor . |
| 30 | Even so , large quantities of brandy and gin were consumed as the men talked . |