Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 2 | Expected numbers for each sector were calculated by multiplying the five year age specific population of each sector in different calendar periods ( see below ) by the corresponding Scottish incidence rates for these diseases . |
| 3 | Other acid outputs were calculated by multiplying the acid output during the second 15 minutes of each infusion period by four . |
| 4 | Acid and pepsin outputs for each gastrin releasing peptide infusion rate were calculated by taking the mean of the second and third 15 minute collections . |
| 5 | Standardised registration ratios were calculated by expressing the observed number of cases as a percentage of the expected number , the expected number being calculated by applying the national age specific rates for each five year age group to the number of people in the population being considered . |
| 6 | The figures for ( u ) were calculated by treating the variation as a continuum with fronting as the sole dimension and this may have distorted the actual situation . |
| 7 | Instructions were given for easing the routines in homes and institutions for the elderly . |
| 8 | Current panics by eugenists and social reformers over national decline were misplaced in blaming the mother . |
| 9 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 10 | At the eastern end of this wall was a caustic bosh in which all horse-drawn vehicles complete with their under-carriages were boshed before entering the shop for repair . |
| 11 | In place of the major role which workers were demanding in running the factories , Lenin presided over the centralization of economic power and the establishment of managerial structures divorced from the rank and file . |
| 12 | The two remaining liberal justices , Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens , were joined in opposing the decision by Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy , both of whom were more usually associated the conservative majority . |
| 13 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |
| 14 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |
| 15 | In the wave of revulsion that followed , priests in the Temple were coerced into abolishing the official sacrifices to Rome and to the Emperor — an overt challenge which rendered open war inevitable . |
| 16 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
| 17 | In this case I am satisfied that the doctors were justified in disregarding the written instructions of Miss T. and of treating her on the basis of an emergency . |
| 18 | He and a colleague were dismissed for using the drug during a visit to a holiday caravan park in Torquay . |
| 19 | The first Montblancs were filled by unscrewing the nib section and filling the barrel with an eye dropper . |
| 20 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 21 | On the other side , extreme animal liberationists for their part were occupied with extending the very demanding current conception of individual human rights to cover individual animals . |
| 22 | It seems that Hunter 's observations on thrombosis in veins were supplemented by noting the local effect of phlebotomy in the horse . |
| 23 | Whilst most of this macro was created using the Macro Record facility , the sections which deal with the path and document name were added by loading the macro as a file and then typing them in . |
| 24 | Mr Lamont insisted that the Conservatives were committed to helping the poorest families over VAT on domestic fuels . |
| 25 | After the breakdown of relations with China in 1978/79 , conditions deteriorated further as Chinese and Western aid was withdrawn and military resources were committed to toppling the Pol Pot government in Cambodia and defending the Chinese border . |
| 26 | When Labour returned to power they were committed to reversing the emphasis upon building for owner occupation within the building boom , but otherwise they wanted to produce even more houses per annum . |
| 27 | The historical texts were confined to enumerating the kings who lived in those troubled years and do not give any indication that something important was occurring at that time . |
| 28 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 29 | Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ? |
| 30 | The Temple Mount Faithful were prevented from entering the site , but there was nevertheless unrest among the 3,000 or so Arabs congregated there . |