Example sentences of "were [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mice receiving lower mediastinal irradiation ( L ) were given the same dose of radiation to the same sized but adjacent field ( T5-T10 ) . |
| 2 | We shall see that in the nineteenth century this limited and special capacity was extended with some modifications to all married women ( see pp. 50–4 ) ; but that in 1935 it was swept away , and married women were given the same capacity to own property and make contracts as a man . |
| 3 | It is time MPs were given the same protection so they can vote without fear of reprisals . |
| 4 | Is n't it time that members standing for C E C elections were given the same equality with Regional Secretaries , who as we all know , all year round , in all regions , when a leaflet or a booklet goes out to members , in most of them there is a photograph of the Regional Secretary . |
| 5 | A pair of identical twins of very similar abilities were taught the same topic by teachers of greatly different experience . |
| 6 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 7 | However , if ’ payment ’ were assigned the same index as ’ pay ’ , then a strong overlap would result . |
| 8 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 9 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 10 | The more they were squeezed the more chrome was exuded , as if from a tube , at each end . |
| 11 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 12 | Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale . |
| 13 | Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the complementary strands . |
| 14 | The only group claiming responsibility was the hitherto unknown " Mohammed El Boukhima " , and about 15 people detained for questioning in the Albi area on May 23 were freed the same day . |
| 15 | Broadly parallel announcements were made the same day in respect of Wales and Scotland . |
| 16 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 17 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 18 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 19 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 20 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 21 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 22 | As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ? |
| 23 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 24 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 25 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 26 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 27 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 28 | As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it . |
| 29 | On Oct. 26 a further search was made and Wolfgang Pöhl , the party treasurer , and another party official were arrested the same day under suspicion of embezzling party funds . |
| 30 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |