Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Under the pressure of population growth the fenland holdings were broken down into smaller and smaller fragments . |
| 4 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 5 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |
| 6 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 7 | By 1988 the majority in both these communities were moving back towards greater emphasis on Lebanese identity , albeit hoping for a new constitutional basis , and they increasingly viewed the Palestinian presence as an undesirable one . |
| 8 | The scuttlebutt says their contracts were not yet signed and that the pair were holding out for better terms and conditions . |
| 9 | The scuttlebutt says their contracts were not yet signed and that the pair were holding out for better terms and conditions . |
| 10 | It is indeed time that the functions of both English and American literature were taken over by younger and better men . |
| 11 | Other teams from Edinburgh , Glasgow and Strathclyde were knocked out in earlier heats , while St Andrews University pulled out of the contest . |