Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No further items were traced referring to this case and so the confusion was allowed to remain . |
| 2 | Quite extraordinarily , even in the first phase of Lunch-time Openings , some Branches were expected to open without any additional staff . |
| 3 | Hitherto member states were expected to pay for all environmental measures themselves . |
| 4 | The price the Jews were expected to pay for this help was cooperation and conformity . |
| 5 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 6 | The rights of the zemstvos were curtailed and they were forbidden to communicate with each other even on the most mundane matters of common concern . |
| 7 | They never met again , for under the probationary terms they were forbidden to associate with each other . |
| 8 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 9 | A second quake in San Martin measured 5.8 , and another measuring 5.5 was recorded in the southern coastal region of Ica , 257 km south of Lima ; two people were reported injured in these lesser tremors . |
| 10 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 11 | The teachers that were interviewed ranged from those on the Main Professional Grade ( MPG ) to heads of departments . |
| 12 | The book was a popular success ; its sales at one time were said to compete with those of Marie Corelli [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity , the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks , in close proximity , were seen to have on each other . |
| 14 | The long-term solution was reached in 1852 when local authorities were empowered to provide for all classes and denominations . |
| 15 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 16 | So special rules were made to deal with this . |
| 17 | Are you certain you were told to come to this office ? ’ |
| 18 | In 16 female Type 2 diabetic patients with clinically overt macrovascular disease , significantly higher serum triglyceride and lower total HDL-cholesterol levels were shown compared to those without macrovascular disease but who were well matched for age , duration of diabetes , weight and glycaemic control . |
| 19 | For example , costs in the area ‘ scrap and rectification ’ were shown to derive from these factors : |
| 20 | These alterations were shown to segregate with all family members known to have the mutant XLA locus in their respective pedigrees ( see Fig. 2 a for pedigree analysis of patient B ) . |
| 21 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 22 | Members of the audience were invited to participate in some games . |
| 23 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 24 | Now a report into how she slipped through the net of all the care agencies has made it clear they were found wanting in many departments . |
| 25 | Indeed variations in profitability were found to account for some three-quarters of the variations in capital stock during this period ( European Economy , 1991 ) . |
| 26 | Even in the second set , where memories were specifically pressed , one third of the grandparents who were remembered had at some time lived in the same household . |
| 27 | The general consensus on this matter was left undisturbed until 1984 when Mr Theo Laurentius , an art dealer who specialises in Rembrandt prints , became convinced that the paper on which the etchings were printed did after all hold the key to their authenticity and thus to their value . |
| 28 | There were two groups in East Africa who had a direct interest in discrediting Masai administration and suggesting that officials were ‘ soft ’ on the Masai : these were , most importantly , the white settlers who wanted Masai land for farming , and enthusiasts for wildlife conservation who wanted the Masai driven out of areas where their interests were believed to conflict with those of game . |
| 29 | In November 1637 commissioners were appointed to compound with all offenders in the Forests of Dean , Essex , Rockingham , Whittlewood and Salcey — to buy their pardon and the disafforestment of their land . |
| 30 | Penn , Topham , Burgess and Benezek were asked to deal with any proposals that might be made to the committee regarding a building that would be suitable as a hospital , and Messrs Shepperson and Reynolds of Oxford Street were appointed ( for what immediate purpose is not clear ) booksellers and stationers to the institution . |