Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 2 | Isolated in this small square well in the deck , they were exposed to anything the elements cared to throw at them . |
| 3 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 4 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 5 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 6 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 7 | In 1987 , new air quality standards for particulates were introduced in which the total suspended particulate ( TSP ) standard ( which included particles as large as 100 um ) was replaced by the PM 10 standard ( particles less than 10 um in diameter ) since small particles are considered to pose a greater threat to health than large particles . |
| 8 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 9 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 10 | Three logistic regressions were conducted in which the oesophageal mucosal status was a dichotomous criterion variable . |
| 11 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 12 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 13 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 14 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 15 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |