Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 2 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 3 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 4 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 5 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 6 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 7 | The work really began when Kaufman noticed that if mouse eggs were exposed briefly to a 7 per cent solution of alcohol a significant proportion ( up to 20 per cent ) of the embryos which developed were aneuploid ( Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , vol 7 1 , p 139 ) . |
| 8 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 9 | As with so many of Eliot 's apparently portentous remarks , I fancy that they were uttered partly in a quizzical manner , and that the mock solemnity was intended to convey the idea of a conspiratorial ritual . |
| 10 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 11 | The quarters were pressed together in a compressed air jig , and then placed on a bench and the panels , mouldings and windows fitted to them . |
| 12 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 13 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 14 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 15 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 16 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 17 | Soon after , her husband 's family in Pakistan and her own family there were torn apart by a feud . |
| 18 | The remaining gas drums were torn apart in a huge blast , and a series of titanic explosions ripped through the fuel tanks in their area , the shock wave breaking loose enormous chunks of rock from the roof . |
| 19 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a European reprieve were shattered yesterday at a FIFA meeting in Switzerland . |
| 20 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 21 | Often three different types of roof — pyramid , hip , and gable — were included together with a wide variety of dormers in the upper storey . |
| 22 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 23 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 24 | The packet contained two smaller packets — one blue , one white , which were mixed together in a tumbler of water . |
| 25 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 26 | Hybrids armed with lasguns were pressing hard against a picket line of planetary guardsmen . |
| 27 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 28 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 29 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 30 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |