Example sentences of "were [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 2 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 3 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 4 | Kuwait and Iraq together contain 29% of the Gulf 's oil reserves and , up to 1990 , were producing 27% of the Gulf 's total output . |
| 5 | Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976 , including the massive Brent and Alpha fields . |
| 6 | In 1989 no award was made , partly because the sponsor felt that publishers were submitting books by the distinguished but small group of authors who had already won prizes , and the prize was allowed to lapse until this year . |
| 7 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 8 | Some of these were given AZT from the start ; the others were given a placebo until they developed symptoms of either AIDS or AIDS-related complex ( ARC ) , when they were then switched to AZT . |
| 9 | The famous team at the Baking Stall were more successful than ever with the ‘ talent envelope scheme ’ whereby bakers were given £5 with the request that they ‘ Take , Buy , Bake and Multiply , ’ just as of old the man in the parable had bidden his servants . |
| 10 | As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis . |
| 11 | However , if GPs were given budgets for the whole range of patient care for their patients , various problems could arise including incentives to undersupply , especially if GPs were permitted to retain budgetary savings . |
| 12 | The request was politely refused , although we were given directions to the Avila headquarters . |
| 13 | There have been a number of other people who were given £50 by the company for information which led to the presentation of a sales proposal to a new client . |
| 14 | Staff and guests were given shelter at the police station . |
| 15 | As well as the company brochure , employees were given documentation on the five counties surrounding the relocation area so that they had the opportunity to get to know the areas before visiting them . |
| 16 | Unprinted goods were given exemptions for the sake of the English textile printing industry , fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands , and the re-export trade to the rest of the world was unaffected , so Indian exports rose steadily . |
| 17 | The speech received much applause , and my remarks about the regalia were given prominence in the next day 's papers . |
| 18 | We were given maps of the reserve and told how to census the songsters by marking the grid position of each singing bird . |
| 19 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 20 | So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses . |
| 21 | In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education . |
| 22 | The expectations and hopes of those people and of many others , which were given life by the excellent judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of the High Court on 30 July , were cruelly dashed by the decision of the major City shareholders that the bank could not be reconstructed . |
| 23 | Altogether complaints from various sources concerning 126 practices or other businesses for which members are responsible were given consideration by the Committee which resolved upon the terms of charges in respect of ten members . |
| 24 | The spectral types were given letters of the alphabet , as follows : |
| 25 | These fears were given credence by the revelation that in at least one case in the March 1992 legislative elections local officials bribed voters to support an unsuccessful DLP candidate . |
| 26 | Both were given positions near the centre of power , unlike their other brothers and sisters , who were installed in basically honorific positions , with the partial exception of the eldest of the siblings , Marin . |
| 27 | Friends of Allonby and Bere Forest were given byes to the semi finals . |
| 28 | In advance of the June election the Pasok administration attempted to strengthen its position through political patronage , with the result that , according to ND , over 90,000 people were given jobs in the public sector during the first six months of 1989 . |
| 29 | Twelve patients were given prednisolone during the study , and their rates of change for spinal bone density were lower , but values were not statistically significantly different from those who did not receive corticosteroids . |
| 30 | Lenders were exempt from this legislation if their basic business was banking , insurance , or primarily unconnected with lending ; friendly societies and building societies were subject to other laws ; various other lenders falling outside a commonsense view of what constituted a moneylender were given exemption by the Board of Trade . |