Example sentences of "were [verb] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 2 | As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | IT WAS difficult for small independents to offer services like their Holiday Care system , which offered immediate help to holidaymakers , whatever the problem , like lost baggage or loans to cope with legal problems over cars in Spain , for which customers were given access to a phone numnber until 15 days after coming home . |
| 5 | Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week . |
| 6 | As early as 1963 Cubans were helping Algeria in a border conflict with Morocco . |
| 7 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 8 | In response to these complexities , the original notion of the sociolinguistic variable with variants which were assigned values along a single phonetic dimension was considerably modified . |
| 9 | The fundamental problem faced by US business was that rivals in Europe and Japan were accumulating capital at a far faster rate ( figure 10.4 ) and were doing so on the basis of far lower wage costs ( table 10.5 ) . |
| 10 | There was no appliance in the kitchen less than thirty years old ; the walls were painted cream with a green dado and the red-tiled floor was scrubbed every Friday by the cleaning woman . |
| 11 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 12 | The British , who were considered part of a European racial group , were the ruling race . |
| 13 | ‘ There are no allegations that any of these were selling information or that there was any fraud involved but they were causing chaos on a scale that could n't be imagined , ’ Mr Richardson said earlier . |
| 14 | Investors were expressing relief about a partial solution to the contracts issue , which has become entangled in the row between China and Britain over Hong Kong 's political future . |
| 15 | The member countries of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) were seeking establishment of a wider European economic space ( EEC ) in which they would have a " close and structured partnership " with the EC [ see p. 37535 ] , although it remained possible that other EFTA member countries besides Austria would opt to seek full EC membership . |
| 16 | Within four months Sir Edmond had received a writ under the privy seal for the working of gold and silver for the new king ; in the following year he , his nephew John Shaa , and his friend Sir Reginald Bray were granted possession of a large estate in Essex , augmenting earlier acquisitions . |
| 17 | One regiment was stationed at Ribchester from the late second century and its members were granted land as a gratuity upon retirement . |
| 18 | They were compiling information for a guide to the Great British pub-goer . |
| 19 | VAUXHALL 's 4,500 Ellesmere Port workers were celebrating news of a major slice of a £17m Government contract last night while management were delighted at the confidence placed in their Astra car , estate and van production . |
| 20 | A little further on they had to skirt an area where a gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a lorry . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the team were turning decline into a slump . |
| 22 | Even if we were to order the repayment of the whole sum at once , the amount would be less than if you were paying tax of a lawful fifteenth of your movable goods . |
| 23 | In a well-known experiment , subjects were shown playing-cards for a small duration of time and asked to identify them . |
| 24 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 25 | as though he were sorting cards for a seance . |
| 26 | Fortunately , his fame had not yet reached the gutters so the winos were not aware that they were providing material for a movie star 's performance . |
| 27 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 28 | From our interviews and observations it was apparent that many members were experiencing frustration through a lack of sense of direction or achievement in this field ( in the survey 25% of respondents felt that their board had achieved little in any field of activity ) , although they were not clear how this might be improved . |
| 29 | Warm dark eyes were subjecting Caroline to a friendly appraisal . |
| 30 | The leisure and recreational movements generated from the grassroots or from the concerned philanthropist looking down from on high were to give way to a cultural and economic popularism which was to be progressively constructed by the new generation of market-orientated professionals . |