Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watercraft have also been reconstructed to test how they were manufactured and how well they functioned , as in the recent case of Olympias , a reconstructed Greek trireme . |
| 2 | Their appeals did in fact fail and they were dismissed because ( 1 ) they were employed in a position of trust which involved very valuable cargoes and ( 2 ) relationships between the company and its customers would be adversely affected . |
| 3 | A potential offeror or its advisers may accordingly acquire shares in the target and use this right to ascertain the compensation which would be payable to directors of the target if they were dismissed and any golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.1 below ) which may exist . |
| 4 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 5 | In the case of certain motor vehicles such as dumper trucks , the prosecution had to prove that they were intended or adapted for use on roads . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs . |
| 7 | Historically , they were exploited because of their lack of understanding of the complex regulations related to the status of ‘ independent contractor , ’ and in this respect I agree that proper vocational training would have been beneficial . |
| 8 | Erika was ready for a treat and a moment later , surrounded by a forest of plants which gave the café an Amazonian aspect , they were seated and ordering coffee and cakes . |
| 9 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |
| 10 | When the words came , they were hissed and halting , each of them separately delivered and stressed and they were in answer to Harry 's first remark as if those that had followed had not yet been absorbed . |
| 11 | During the course they were given the facilities of the officers mess where they were fed and housed . |
| 12 | The government claimed that the miners had come to Bucharest " spontaneously " but admitted that they were fed and lodged in government-owned sports halls . |
| 13 | They were fed and sheltered here in Assisi and in other monasteries and church buildings until they could get away to South America . |
| 14 | In March they were received as World Champions by an ecstatic crowd after winning the Cricket World Cup for the first time . |
| 15 | The officials chosen to represent her on intermittent and shortlived embassies were usually ignorant of the languages of the countries to which they were sent and often ‘ Moscow Germans ’ ( descendants of foreigners who had settled in Russia ) rather than Russians by ancestry . |
| 16 | Former workers repeatedly insisted there were quality problems with work after they were sacked and replaced by raw recruits . |
| 17 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 18 | Like mustard gas , the nitrogen mustards caused blisters when they came into contact with skin , and they damaged many other tissues when they were absorbed or injected into the circulating blood . |
| 19 | They left when they were assured that no eviction would take place until alternative accommodation had been found for the family . |
| 20 | People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children . |
| 21 | This shows that one of the major factors that distinguishes the films of motorways and bends in roads from those of junctions is that they were rated as having less to see in them . |
| 22 | They were rated as positive if the subject had two or more of : examination success ; a positive assessment of school work or relationships with peers ; or a clearly positive recall of at least three aspects of school life . |
| 23 | Although there was a potential for conflict between the other two policy aims , full employment and the protection of sterling , they were sustained because any necessary adjustments could be absorbed by the overall growth of the economy . |
| 24 | But they were sustained and developed , with Ministerial acquiescence , eventually obtaining varying degrees of support . |
| 25 | They were killed when methane or coal dust ignited in a fireball which ripped through shafts and tunnels nearly 3 km from the mine entrance . |
| 26 | Set upon by the locals , they were killed and tossed into a trench still known as Englishmen 's Syke . |
| 27 | This massive forced deportation concluded Charles ' conquest of Saxony , for as a chronicler records ‘ henceforth they abandoned worship of evil spirits , and gave up the wicked customs of their forefathers , received the sacrament of Christian baptism , mingling with the Franks until at last they were reckoned as one race … ’ |
| 28 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 29 | After the epithelial cells were equilibrated at the interface of the Percoll layer they were collected and washed twice in RPMI 1640 . |
| 30 | Yet everyone knows they were shot and killed . |