Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concepts were developed to conceptualize problems which arose in therapeutic work — problems such as the resistance of patients to being well at all , and not merely to particular interpretations offered to them by Freud in his role as analyst . |
| 2 | Equilibrium ballvalves were developed to overcome problems of water hammer caused by ballvalves shutting off too quickly . |
| 3 | These guidelines were developed to assist centres increase their use of three common alternative routes to accreditation — accreditation of prior learning ( APL ) , credit transfer and assessment on demand . |
| 4 | Short summer courses were arranged to prepare teachers for a return to the service . |
| 5 | In addition , the references of the available primary studies , review articles , and editorials were checked to identify references not found in the Medline searches . |
| 6 | On it were placed chafing dishes full of glowing charcoal , spices and herbs . |
| 7 | The same firms were given operating licences under very lax conditions by the same agency . |
| 8 | Various initiatives were undertaken to promote solicitors ' services to the wider public . |
| 9 | Using terms like the ‘ primary stage of socialism ’ , and the ‘ socialist commodity economy ’ , did little to placate students and other low-income groups who were struggling to make ends meet . |
| 10 | Whenever special committees were formed , they were to be ‘ in connection with the schools ’ and their duties were to include supervising conditions of labour , making recommendations as to continuation and technical education classes , forming ‘ a public opinion ’ against ‘ blind-alley ’ occupations , organizing apprenticeships , and caring for juveniles with special disabilities . |
| 11 | The 14-strong cast got a rousing response from primary schools who were treated to free seats at yesterday 's dress rehearsal . |
| 12 | The best known in the West is probably shakudo , which is a copper alloy with a deep black patina , but other copper alloys were patinated to produce colours ranging from shades of grey and brown through to green . |
| 13 | The main causes were broken retaining chains , out of position guards , tubes sealed altogether , and impact damage caused by the guard hitting tractor wheels , lift arms or the implement . |
| 14 | The twelve forest parishes were to continue to nominate reeves for appointment by the Conservators , and the reeves to mark commoners ' cattle , receive the fees therefor , and impound uncommonable cattle . |
| 15 | If Japanese women were to continue having children for the rest of this century at their 1989 fertility rate of 1.57 , Japan 's population would inch up from today 's 123m to 126m in 2005 . |
| 16 | Malcontent generals could invent excuses of bad health in order to meet fellow conspirators — thus , from Lacy to Prim , mineral spas were favoured plotting places . |
| 17 | First , since the network variable was motivated by a more general social theory , they were intended to reflect conditions which , in a number of network studies , had seemed capable of predicting the extent to which an individual became subject to group pressures . |
| 18 | The investigations into poverty carried out by Peter Townsend ( 1957 , 1979 ) were both descriptive and explanatory , and were intended to prompt governments into modifying their policies in relation to the poor . |
| 19 | The reforms were intended to contain developments such as the growth of wage drift in larger companies . |
| 20 | Other patients whose studies were part of a research protocol have been included in the subsequent analysis as these requests for gastric emptying studies were intended to establish diagnoses , albeit to define groups of patients for further evaluation . |
| 21 | These were intended to cover areas such as language use and the acquisition of study skills . |
| 22 | The measures were intended to bring standards for heavy commercial vehicles into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions , on which tougher standards had been agreed in principle in December 1990 and were approved in June 1991 [ see p. 38297 ; for other environmental issues see pp. 37784 ; 38258 ] . |
| 23 | Hence they were predisposed to secure contracts under the state scheme which preserved their freedom . |
| 24 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 25 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 26 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 27 | Repairs were expected to take weeks , so officers bought a new machine costing £4,000 . |
| 28 | Mr Clinton 's televised remarks last night were expected to echo themes he raised in a Saturday radio broadcast in which he urged Americans to embrace his programme of economic change and shared sacrifice to lift the country back to prosperity . |
| 29 | Honoured guests were expected to shoot tigers . |
| 30 | The two sides , led by Iraq 's permanent representative at the UN , Abdul Amir al-Anbari , and a UN Assistant Secretary-General and Controller at the Office of Planning , Budget and Finance , Kofi Annan , were expected to resume discussions in February . |