Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation . |
| 2 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 3 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 4 | Moving closer , Miles watched as strips of blubber were placed along with heated stones into canoes filled with water . |
| 5 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 6 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 7 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 8 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 9 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 10 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 11 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 12 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke said he understood his staff were referred back to that meeting when they contacted Mrs Shephard 's office . |
| 14 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 15 | Jail sentences of eighteen months each were meted out to five of them , with the sixth ( the only woman ) receiving twelve months . |
| 16 | Death and destruction were meted out by both sides , but there can be little doubt that the rebels carried a greater burden of responsibility than the Republicans , for their repressive actions took a higher human toll and they , not the Republicans , had acted against legality . |
| 17 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 18 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 19 | At the drink-up after their New York appearance , the band were hanging out with ex-Nymph INGRE LORRE , who invited them all back to her mother 's house for a Halloween party ( surely an offer not to be passed up ) . |
| 20 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 21 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 22 | Whereas water and electricity were broken up into different private companies between which there might be a degree of competition , British Telecom ( BT ) and British Gas were essentially privatized intact . |
| 23 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 24 | Sometimes traditional economies were broken up by European competition : the cultivation of indigo , for example , collapsed with the discovery of synthetic dyestuffs . |
| 25 | In order to study the growth rates in more detail , the data were broken down into annual figures , ( See Table 4 ) . |
| 26 | The way she spoke , all words were broken down into distinct syllables . |
| 27 | Under the pressure of population growth the fenland holdings were broken down into smaller and smaller fragments . |
| 28 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 29 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 30 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |