Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulham were ordered to pay the overdue sum , amounting to £20 4s 5d , plus three guineas expenses , and Leeds were reprimanded for not taking money at the gates . |
| 2 | ‘ I would have immense concerns if consideration were given to further assessing the relationship between L. and her mother and thus protract L. 's sense of impermanence . |
| 3 | Governments were criticized for not putting enough pressure to end human rights violations in countries where the asylum seekers originated . |
| 4 | Reports were received of well attended events held in India , Sri Lanka , Ghana and Papua New Guinea . |
| 5 | Using clients referred from across the city , they were assigned to either ICT or GCT and followed up at one , two , three , and six months . |
| 6 | In Belfast the Georgian flight crew were fined for not having proper entry visas — then the Forte Crest stepped in with cheap accommodation on learning Tbilisi could only afford to stay in university halls . |
| 7 | It follows the controversial case of the ‘ Beverley 11 , ’ when 11 jockeys were fined for allegedly refusing to obey the starter , which led to considerable debate on the courses of appeal open to the riders . |
| 8 | Both Brief Encounter and Great Expectations which A H-A produced , were nominated for Best Picture . |
| 9 | Cargoes taken to and from the East were carried in specially built ships , which were among the largest contemporary merchantmen , the East Indiamen , and the officers ' places in these ships were an additional source of private patronage for those politicians who enjoyed influence with the owners of the ships , for it was the owners , not the Company , who appointed the commander and mates of East Indiamen . |
| 10 | Some of the traps and carts were decorated with delicately painted designs . |
| 11 | New firms relying on the import of seaborne raw materials and export of heavy finished goods were attracted to locationally advantaged sites on the Thames waterfront . |
| 12 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 13 | After incubation for 5 minutes at room temperature to allow trypsin inactivation , the gall bladder epithelial cells were detached by gently scrapping the mucosa with the end of a glass microscope slide held at an angle of 45° . |
| 14 | Until 1983 building societies were prevented from so doing . |
| 15 | Their dark waters , in places only a few hundred yards across , were met by vertically plunging forest , wreathed in mist , and for the most part deathly quiet . |
| 16 | In a third condition , words were presented in randomly ordered phrases , so that the sequence of words within a phrase ( marked by / above ) was maintained but the sequence of phrases within the passage was disrupted . |
| 17 | All winners of certificates and awards were written to individually asking them to check the details on their forms as this was the information that would be used in the presentations . |
| 18 | This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . |
| 19 | ROS membranes were prepared from freshly dissected bovine retinae as previously described in the presence of proteolytic inhibitors : 0.1mM DFP , 5μgml -1 aprotinin , 2μgml -1 leupeptin , and 2μgml -1 pepstatin . |
| 20 | However , he stressed they were looking at how to change existing guidelines , for example how to use existing medical staff most efficiently . |
| 21 | On the box in Coronation Street Emily and Ernest Bishop were looking for somewhere to live . |
| 22 | ‘ In the late 1980s we were looking for somewhere to produce a whole stream of new products , ’ said managing director of Glaxo Developments Alan Catterall . |
| 23 | Likewise , in 1974 local authority health powers in England and Wales were transferred to newly created , non-elected health authorities ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 24 | To investigate whether colonic carcinoma cells also shed the recently described soluble sICAM-1 , culture supernatants were collected from confluently growing colonic tumour cell lines after five days of culture and assessed in duplicate in an ICAM-1 specific ‘ sandwich ’ ELISA . |
| 25 | An experienced publicist would go for a colour piece somewhere instead of the cover , but we were instructed to only go for cover pieces , so we ended up getting them of course , and we ended up creating this whole myth around him which was fabulous . |
| 26 | Together with records for the current population these were searched for routinely recorded data on arterial pressure , smoking , body mass index ( weight ( kg ) divided by squared height ( m ) ) , oral contraceptive use , and either stated alcohol intake or social , haematological , or biochemical evidence of alcohol damage . |
| 27 | Here Owen is clearly asking whether men were made to just destroy themselves and nature . |
| 28 | At a time when Martins were judged by musicians to be rather leaden and toneless , their takeover of Levin would appear to be a feature of commercial paranoia , since the Goliath series were made from beautifully matched woods , had enviable straight spruce tops , bound necks and a high standard of finish . |
| 29 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 30 | The most effective ideological influences came not from evangelical social reform but from more complex processes by which elements similar to those of the ruling ideology were produced from deeply felt experiences of the class itself . |