Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 2 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 3 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 4 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 5 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 6 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 7 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 8 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 9 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 10 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 11 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 12 | The slides were examined immediately with an Orthomat microscope equipped with a Leitz Wetzlar fluorescence light source for epifluorescence . |
| 13 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 14 | Germany , the principal ex-enemy state , lying at the heart of Europe , presented complex problems in 1945 , not least because it was placed under joint occupation by the Big Three and France who were joined together in an Allied Control Council . |
| 15 | The work really began when Kaufman noticed that if mouse eggs were exposed briefly to a 7 per cent solution of alcohol a significant proportion ( up to 20 per cent ) of the embryos which developed were aneuploid ( Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , vol 7 1 , p 139 ) . |
| 16 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 17 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 18 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 19 | The figures were validated recently by an independent technical magazine for the prototype green machine . |
| 20 | As with so many of Eliot 's apparently portentous remarks , I fancy that they were uttered partly in a quizzical manner , and that the mock solemnity was intended to convey the idea of a conspiratorial ritual . |
| 21 | For instance , if the clause imposing the obligation only to exercise reasonable endeavours were hidden away in a set of standard terms on the back of a quotation offering in unequivocal terms to paint the house , and the job was otherwise obviously a straightforward one , it is hard to see how reliance on the clause would be reasonable . |
| 22 | The quarters were pressed together in a compressed air jig , and then placed on a bench and the panels , mouldings and windows fitted to them . |
| 23 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 24 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 25 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 26 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 27 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 28 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 29 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 30 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |