Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of processes were undertaken to remedy what many physical geographers perceived to be a deficiency and in doing so it was necessary to overcome considerable resistance such as that in geomorphology where Wooldridge ( 1958 , p. 31 ) avowed : |
| 2 | No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples . |
| 3 | Dissident former members of Jugnauth 's MSM , led by former Finance Minister Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo , were expected to form their own party . |
| 4 | We , we were expected , we did , we were expected to keep our own rooms tidy . |
| 5 | Most of the cuts , which were negotiated over 20 months [ see pp. 37201 ; 37267 ; 37335 ; 37473-74 ; 37796-97 ] , would be made by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries , which were expected to reduce their total arsenal by as much as 40 per cent . |
| 6 | It was there for all to see — BR became less of a corporate business , more an overlord for the sectors who were expected to find their own feet with or without government subsidy . |
| 7 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 8 | Instead , they were seen to raise their right arms in the ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ salute of the National Socialist movement . |
| 9 | None of the 55 patients was given any type of medical treatment during the study period and all were instructed to continue their normal dietary habits . |
| 10 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 11 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 12 | Members of parliament and top civil servants were made to reveal their financial assets , some of which proved to be astonishingly large . |
| 13 | It is understood the moves were made to make it easier to count the votes and complete the procedure by the weekend . |
| 14 | Contemporaries did note approvingly that attempts were made to keep it clean and well aired , which , it seems , had not always been the case in the days of Louis-Philippe . |
| 15 | Various hypotheses based on different kinds of anatomical evidence were offered to identify which invertebrate type had been the ancestor from which the ‘ main line ’ of vertebrate evolution had taken off . |
| 16 | Long walks by the sea were needed to shake it all down and shake off the pounds that could so easily accumulate . |
| 17 | Er Nottingham had about three attempts to pinch , and er the last one they were told to put their own house in order , first , because conditions were so much better than in the city . |
| 18 | When Goanese Christians complained of this discrimination they were told to start their own order , which they did very successfully . |
| 19 | The restoration has also revealed the way the archaeological elements were doctored to make them fit together as a sophisticated whole . |
| 20 | The fact that both Linda and I were abused makes it worse because I want to help her , I want to comfort her , I want to care for her , but by doing that I 've got to forget about what 's happening to me . |
| 21 | Visitors to the Pumphouse were invited to input their weekly alcoholic intake into a computer , which calculated the cost of their drinking habits . |
| 22 | Your personal recollection of evaluation may be limited to semi-formal evaluation ‘ sessions ’ tacked onto the end of a study block or course , when you were invited to give your personal views and answer preset questions on the strengths and weaknesses of the work or study methods , quality of lectures , usefulness of discussions and so on . |
| 23 | were invited to demonstrate their top grade Chapatti flour recently at the largest ethnic centre in the country at Ealing Road , Wembley . |
| 24 | The idea originated at the Museum and Art Gallery of Walsall in 1989 when local people were invited to display their own collections . |
| 25 | Entrants were invited to send their left trainer in an air-tight packet to Atlantic 252 radio station . |
| 26 | We were invited to contemplate their respective personalities , their little foibles , their dress sense , their wives and even such physical features ( supposedly indicative of their state of mind ) as the colour of their eyes . |
| 27 | But however enthusiastically they cultivated this aura , Australians were bound to feel themselves second-class citizens . |
| 28 | After a time , the blocks began to join up , forming couplets , triplets and so on , until all were linked to form one long-chain ‘ molecule ’ . |
| 29 | Each visitor had a chance to win when their names were entered using their personalised invitations . |
| 30 | The interior spaces of the wedge-shaped building were converted to suit their new function by artists Robert Irwin and Richard Fleischner , with architect David Raphael Singer , whose particular brief was to retain the all-glass walls of the building while making it a suitable and secure venue for displaying works of art . |