Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Kemp and her solicitor were refused access to that meeting , and were only told of the outcome some time later . |
| 2 | But other students at Tracey 's college all of whom were personally informed of the tragedy by letter felt it was unusual . |
| 3 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 4 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 6 | The elections were held against the background of the serious and savage autumn harvest uprisings in October 1946 and were characterised by various grave deficiencies : some electors were not notified of the election , votes were cast by others in the names of genuine electors . |
| 7 | They were not told of the grounds for referral , and the case proceeded without them . |
| 8 | In one study , the essence of secretions from a female 's armpit were smeared onto the upper lips of other females who , perhaps fortunately , were not told of the origin of the smears . |
| 9 | Again , her family were not told of the seriousness of the condition until a month later and just days defore she died . |
| 10 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 11 | Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk . |
| 12 | Mr Maclean said the fact that MPs visiting Sellafield were not informed of the leak ‘ would seem to me a rather extraordinary discourtesy ’ . |
| 13 | They were soon assured of the truth . |
| 14 | Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people . |
| 15 | This report suggested the development of community teams with community psychiatric nurses based in primary care , and health boards were finally persuaded of the desirability of psychiatric units in district general hospitals . |
| 16 | Moreover , they were largely deprived of the stability and continuity of traditional rural life . |
| 17 | The identification of Hitler with the ‘ struggle against the Jews ’ was most probably seen in a more positive light by the far wider sections of the population , who , though never rabid or violent anti-Semites , had accepted the basic justification of discrimination and expulsion of Jews , and who were largely persuaded of the responsibility of world Jewry for the war . |
| 18 | They were still thinking of the kingdom in materialistic terms . |
| 19 | They were both told of the lengthy queues when they rang to take children there for aid . |
| 20 | Her long fair hair was coiled demurely at the nape of her neck , and her nails were carefully cleansed of the scarlet polish she had worn on Saturday night . |
| 21 | As a result , many of these houses not only lost their lived-in feel , but were also emptied of the everyday objects that are increasingly seen as essential to a proper understanding of their history and function . |
| 22 | So despite the enormous gains they conferred un their masters , they were often cheated of the loyal support they deserved . |
| 23 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 24 | The Crimean Tatars , however , were officially exonerated of the charge of disloyalty much later , in 1967 , and they were given no general right to return to their former homelands , not least because the territories they had left had now been settled by other nationalities . |
| 25 | The race , between Speke and New Brighton and back , means hundreds of people being out on the river but neither the Lifeboat service or the Coastguard were officially notified of the arrangements . |
| 26 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will wish the inquiry to investigate how numerous complaints came to be disregarded , how Mr. Frank Beck was able to simply resign , why the police were never informed of the complaints so that they could be fully investigated at the time , why Mr. Frank Beck , having resigned voluntarily after numerous complaints , was given a reference , why there was not even a report into the then Department of Health and Social Security , and why the inquiries by Brent therefore proved negative . |
| 27 | The other was the equally simple fact that boys in public schools were chronically deprived of the normal sources of affection . |
| 28 | There he was forcibly reminded of the humiliation of his situation . |
| 29 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 30 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |