Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 2 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 3 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 4 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 5 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 6 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 7 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 8 | DURING the 1992 general election the people of the United Kingdom were not given a proper chance to make a decision about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 9 | ‘ It was to protect this operation that the press were not given a full briefing when the recent doping allegations were made . |
| 10 | Patients with little or no residual intraluminal tumour and a good lumen ( implying minimal risk of obstruction ) were not given a further follow up appointment . |
| 11 | ‘ But we were not given an easy ride just because we are an in-house company . |
| 12 | They were not considered an attractive , efficient or safe way to power a vehicle . |
| 13 | Ardiles said he began to mistrust Swindon Town 's former chairman Brian Hillier , who 's on trial with Macari , and former club accountant Vince Farrar.Ardiles said in 1990 he stopped offering the cash bonuses , and players were soon paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts.Macari , Hillier , and Farrar deny the charges , and the case continues . |
| 14 | Twelve subjects were individually given a four-consonant sequence and an arbitrary number to count backwards from in threes as fast as they could before they were given the signal . |
| 15 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |
| 16 | Phenomena such as suggestion , attitude , state of mind etc were promptly given a concrete target on which they could operate . |
| 17 | We were always assigned a prescribed pattern to follow after take-off . |
| 18 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 19 | Lawyers representing the nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery , Daventry , Northamptonshire , were yesterday granted a judicial review of the Ministry of Agriculture order to slaughter the chickens . |
| 20 | THE Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , were yesterday given a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel claims over allegations of an affair between them . |
| 21 | POLICE investigating the murder of a 40-year-old woman at her £300,000 home were yesterday given an extra 36 hours to question her estranged husband . |
| 22 | More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition — indeed , even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe , but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC , a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens , but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals . |
| 23 | Gordon Middleton and Alan Hill were both given a conditional discharge . |
| 24 | The respondents were also asked a supplementary question designed to elicit their rationalisations for their decisions . |
| 25 | Morgan shares were also given a helping hand by the AMP offer . |
| 26 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 27 | All the women were also given a full social interview about their family , employment , housing , financial circumstances , crises , marital relationship , events and difficulties of the previous twelve months . |
| 28 | Colchester were also given a tough match by Woodford . |
| 29 | The teams were also given an initial recurrent budget of £40,000 ( 1982 prices ) from which to pump prime small initiatives . |
| 30 | Rhinos were also considered a great trophy from a day 's hunting . |