Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 9 days , individual reaggregate cultures were gently teased apart to liberate any lymphoid cells . |
| 2 | Senior officials of the United States administration were quoted on June 20 as saying that the USA expected to lift sanctions against South Africa by mid-July , a lead most other countries and organizations were generally expected quickly to follow . |
| 3 | Among the many cathedrals with Norman remains , it is most usual for the nave to be unaltered — the eastern arm and transepts were generally enlarged later to provide more accommodation . |
| 4 | In any case , you were not born just to make paper . ’ |
| 5 | As shown in Fig 7 , channel kinetics underconditions that produced inward current flow ( NaCl solution in the bath and high K + solution in the pipette ) differed from those seen during outward current flow ( see Fig 1 ) , and it is possible that channels were not activated sufficiently to produce sustained bursts of openings when NaCl solution was present in the bath . |
| 6 | That doctors ' sex , age , years as a principal , training , or teaching and training activity were not shown significantly to influence their patients ' diabetic control . |
| 7 | It was widely felt that Théodore , a bitter critic of Aristide who wished severely to restrict his future powers , was not guaranteed to be acceptable to the army or business sectors which were not expected easily to drop their opposition to Aristide 's return . |
| 8 | On March 19 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) appealed for action to " avert a major nutritional crisis " , warning of possible starvation in Iraq if measures were not taken quickly to distribute foodstuffs . |
| 9 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 10 | The half-hour 's entertainment was due to begin at eight thirty : some relatives , waiting now patiently in the hall , had been admitted , but were not allowed backstage to mingle . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 12 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 13 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |
| 14 | The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 . |
| 15 | They were later called away to deal with a house which was ablaze . |
| 16 | Both sides were later reported either to have used them or to be planning to do so . |
| 17 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 18 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 19 | This was certainly not the case in respect of the Geneva Conventions Act where the offences were newly created solely to give effect to the Convention , and were described as being hardly applicable to the case at all . |
| 20 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 21 | A biopsy was taken 8 cm from the anal margin on the anterior rectal wall ; these were subsequently examined histologically to assess inflammatory activity , which was graded in a standard manner ( table I ) . |
| 22 | We were therefore taken aback to receive , within two weeks , a highly critical letter from the editor requesting a major restructuring of the paper and enclosing a heavily edited copy of the manuscript . |
| 23 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 24 | During the 19C this and the surrounding area fell into decay and the cloisters were actually divided horizontally to provide two sets of slums . |
| 25 | Warner and Palairet were too taken aback to reply . |