Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal martyr 's sufferings were compared with those of Christ , ‘ Blessed Lord ’ , ran the central prayer at Matins , |
| 2 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 3 | These words were treasured by those present at the death-bed and recorded for the benefit of those unavoidably absent . |
| 4 | Additionally , as needs changed , new words were coined for new situations and were ‘ Latinised ’ to fit more easily into the documents being called for . |
| 5 | The words were stored in various sub-dictionaries containing vocabulary words and suffixes . |
| 6 | The words were uttered with devastating sincerity . |
| 7 | The words were uttered with such chilling disinterest that Isabel 's stomach turned over and her legs started to tremble . |
| 8 | The words were uttered with such venom that Sabine 's head jerked back in shock . |
| 9 | Words were painted along each arm , but she was too far away to be able to make them out . |
| 10 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 11 | Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle . |
| 12 | Baron and Strawson ( 1976 ) reported on the ways in which regular and irregular words were processed by two general groups whom they called " Chinese " and " Phoenician " readers . |
| 13 | With the 70,498 word lexicon alternative ( incorrect ) words were suggested for 89 of these cases . |
| 14 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 15 | He spoke in Italian , but his words were interspersed with English too , and Meredith sensed the excitement in him , her muddled brain recognising that he was about to announce something important . |
| 16 | The words were spoken with extreme bitterness . |
| 17 | And that applied whether the words were spoken on separate occasions or all together . |
| 18 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 19 | When males and females were analysed separately it was found that different characteristics were associated with non-completion and that these differences were quite striking . |
| 20 | JET 's primary characteristics were established in 1973 , from quite simple considerations . |
| 21 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 22 | Briefs on these two aspects were provided to all Scottish MP 's serving on the Committee stage of the Bill . |
| 23 | Other aspects were discussed in previous chapters . |
| 24 | Written guidelines were wanted for all tasks so that there are no recriminations when things go wrong . |
| 25 | Guidelines were introduced on 1 January 1990 . |
| 26 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 27 | Complexes were separated by non-denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis , dried and autoradiographed . |
| 28 | The complexes were separated in non-denaturing agarose gels , cut out , incubated at 60 C with running buffer and separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( 18 ) . |
| 29 | The abbey of Leicester came to depend increasingly on rent income from its demesnes , and also from its tithes , and most demesnes were rented by 1477 , while Owston Abbey in the same shire had abandoned direct exploitation of demesne lands in all but three villages before 1400 . |
| 30 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |