Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were assigned almost immediately to carry our share on such missions as , Hanover , Berlin and then there were those shallow missions to North Africa and , and of Russia . |
| 2 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 3 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 4 | The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes . |
| 5 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 6 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 7 | Perhaps Jeremy Bates , who with his partner , Neil Broad , were ranked sufficiently highly to go straight into the main draw for the doubles , might have considered the position of his partner a little more sympathetically . |
| 8 | The important feature of both initiatives was that people who normally work independently from each other and who shared a common vision and interest , were brought together also to share and benefit from each other 's expertise . |
| 9 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 10 | ‘ I said you were sunk low enough to match his sordid background , yes . ’ |
| 11 | This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss . |
| 12 | WOMEN drivers were warned yesterday not to stop if signalled to do so by an unauthorised person . |
| 13 | They were warned then not to let the woman go theirselves . |
| 14 | Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada , whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers . |