Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We were aroused late that night by the most terrible screams and a pounding on the door . |
2 | Rafelson , Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner had smart quarters and were seeing very substantial returns on Easy Rider and other films , and BBS was growing with it . |
3 | The flaws were pointed out last year in a report by W.S. Atkins consultants , commissioned by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) . |
4 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
5 | ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai . |
6 | The effect on a school would be devastating erm the school has already lost one teacher , the s the actual demand is increasing erm if we were to lose yet another teacher then what would we would be denying is education to the children , the best possible education . |
7 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
8 | In 1992/93 each single person was , for example , given an allowance of 3,445 ; married couples were given an additional allowance of 1,720 over and above the single allowance and pensioners were given even higher allowances . |
9 | And as if that was n't difficult enough , they were given just six hours to put together the entire production . |
10 | Enterprises were given just three hours from the start of business on Jan. 23 to hand over such notes from their cash floats to banks . |
11 | They were given immensely long platforms , like their military counterparts , some of the longest in the world , and huge circulation areas to cope with the great press of travellers at significant pilgrimage periods . |
12 | Rooms at the Skein of Geese were given infuriatingly anserine names rather than mere utilitarian numbers . |
13 | The arguments about just quarrels with our ancient enemy , the French , were given yet another outing ; commissioners were appointed in May 1546 and armed with instructions similar to the previous set . |
14 | On 24 May they were given yet another destination — Hazenbrouck , in the S-W corner of the semi-circle round Dunkirk where the 1st Bucks were to make their last stand . |
15 | Edis and Brabazon have suggested that parental involvement would be improved if parents were given more extensive rights . |
16 | Municipal reform came later in Ireland than in either England or Scotland ; and when the Act was passed in 1840 , the new councils were given more restricted powers ( Roche 1982:33 — 4 ) . |
17 | Significant passages of the speech , particularly on interest rates , were received in silence and other keynote statements were given only polite applause . |
18 | In 1978 the Primary Survey compiled by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate criticised teachers because children were given too little autonomy . |
19 | Doubtless these were given too little weight because it was reasonable to expect that tidal forces of the Sun had given Mercury synchronous rotation . |
20 | Torquay were given too much space and too much time and striker Adrian Foster made the most of it . |
21 | Children nowadays were given too much pocket money . |
22 | er we were given very little opportunity to raise anything with Mr |
23 | Four stimuli were used : two of these were given very different labels , thus approximating to the A and B stimuli of Fig. 5.3 . |
24 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
25 | A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone . |
26 | In addition , three island authorities were given virtually all-purpose status . |
27 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
28 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
29 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
30 | In experiments to study the mechanism of 5HT induced alterations of ileocolonic function , atropine and several 5HT receptor subtype antagonists were given intraperitoneally 60 minutes before the laparotomy ; these were atropine suphate ( 0.14 mmol/kg , Elkins-Sinn , Cherry Hill , NJ ) ; methylsergide ( 2.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 1 and 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Sandoz Research Institute , East Hanover , NJ , USA ) ; ketanserin ( 1.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc , Beerse , Belgium ) ; R-zacopride ( 2.5 mmol/kg , a selective 5HT 3 antagonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) , and SC53116 ( 2.4 mmol/kg , a 5HT 4 agonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) . |