Example sentences of "[vb past] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 2 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 3 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 4 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 5 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 6 | The women interviewed were assessed on the number of amenities — running hot water , nearness to shops and so on — and aids — vacuum cleaners , washing machines and so forth — they possessed . |
| 7 | To take an extreme example , if all the additional income received were withdrawn from the circular flow of income , the multiplier would be equal to l and the final rise in income would be just equal to the initial rise in spending and no more . |
| 8 | Data from the patients who withdrew were included in the analysis up to the point of withdrawal . |
| 9 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 10 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 11 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 12 | The data collected were analysed by the department of general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas 's Hospitals . |
| 13 | Our third theme will be the way in which the questions these developments raised were illustrated towards the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the present century in the work of Albert Schweitzer ( 1875–1965 ) , Johannes Weiss ( 1863–1914 ) , William Wrede ( 1859–1906 ) , Martin Kähler ( 1835–1912 ) and Ernst Troeltsch ( 1865–1923 ) . |
| 14 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 15 | The courses taught were validated by the University of Birmingham which approved these syllabuses , designed by those who were to teach them . |
| 16 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 17 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 18 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 19 | It should be noted that the delivery times recorded were achieved despite the fact that , owing to illness and vacation , the Book Fetching Unit was operating with less than its normal complement of staff throughout the periods of the Survey . |
| 20 | As the kettle began to boil , she realised that the mugs she needed were stowed beneath the sink . |
| 21 | This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity . |
| 22 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 23 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 24 | Turning to the stay of proceedings , the principles which applied were enshrined in The Abidin Daver ( 1984 ) AC 398 and The Spiliada ( 1987 ) AC 460 . |
| 25 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 26 | While clearly pointing out that these moves do not ensure women 's rights , and that the struggle for women 's liberation will carry on long after the setting up of an independent Palestinian state , Women 's Committees are encouraged by these developments and determined to learn from the mistakes made by women involved in other national liberation struggles , for example , in Algeria , where gains made were lost after the revolution . |
| 27 | The first questions Wien asked were related to the resolving power of optical instruments . |
| 28 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 29 | The bands which appeared were selected by the Hackney Agency for Music Marketing Action ( HAMMA ) on behalf of the MU and the ICA . |
| 30 | As part of the process of organizing Nova Scotia as a colony more seriously than before , the Acadians were pressed to take the oath of allegiance to George II in accordance with the Treaty of Utrecht , and those who refused were deported to the French settlement in Louisiana . |