Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , both conceptions of the higher education enterprise were developed and indeed articulated within the framework of a set of wider philosophical values and meanings . |
| 2 | During contests , photographers were policed and only two were allowed in the water at any one time . |
| 3 | The hypochromicity factors ( F ) [ d(CGCAATCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGATTGCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGCXXTCG) F = 0.8 ; d(CGXTTGCG) F = 0.7 ] were calculated as previously described ( 14 ) and used to calculate concentrations of the single strands using published ( 15 ) extinction coefficients of the nucleosides ( ε 260 d 3C A = 11.1 10 3 mol -1 lcm -1 ) . |
| 4 | If so , it was very successful , for the incensed Bishop of London reported the matter to Charles I , who had the offenders brought before the Court of High Commission , where they were reprimanded and heavily fined . |
| 5 | At the time these changes were justified by the need to maintain social order and the ‘ violations ’ of individual rights were explained as purely temporary expedients . |
| 6 | Enfolded in the crisp embrace of new money , they were pointed and hard , like the nose cones of rockets about to blast off for planetary exploration , the nurturing of new worlds . |
| 7 | During this period , many changed to production methods were completed and together with others he was responsible for the introduction of incentive schemes , revised staffing levels , and new inspection systems . |
| 8 | On day 8 , the rats were sedated as before and weighed . |
| 9 | But hours after they were given that right , the terrorists who share their political aspirations , blast every public service in Portadown 's main street , injuring six of the electorate in the process . |
| 10 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 11 | Her arms , which were bare to the elbows , were freckled and lightly downed in the artificial light . |
| 12 | These forecasts were criticized because both current practice and future intentions with regard to increased access to HE meant that many mature entrants to HE particularly in the public sector — who admit between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of mature entrants — do not possess the formal qualifications for HE . |
| 13 | The first Alpine skiers were regarded as rather eccentric , but the sport gradually took hold where there were already mountain resorts such as Davos in Switzerland . |
| 14 | And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought . |
| 15 | They were regarded as both beautiful and terrifying . |
| 16 | The earliest horseless carriages were regarded as socially dangerous and the first legislation to control them required that each should be accompanied by three persons — a driver , a passenger in case the driver was taken ill , and a third person walking in front carrying a red flag . |
| 17 | In some areas rate levels were already beyond the limits which were regarded as socially and politically acceptable . |
| 18 | Sixty five years ago our continents were regarded as absolutely fixed . |
| 19 | Stable exchange rates were regarded as absolutely essential to reduce LDCs ' economic management problems and better adjustment mechanisms were required to share the burden of external imbalances between deficit and surplus countries . |
| 20 | Both traditions were very marginal in their impact in the inter-war period ; their practitioners were regarded as highly eccentric by the small minority who knew of their activities , and as a nuisance by the police . |
| 21 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 22 | Traditionally these personnel functions were regarded as quite separate from design functions and indeed they were often left until the hardware design and commissioning was virtually complete . |
| 23 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 24 | These kinds of exemptions were regarded as potentially harmful by organizations such as the Royal Town Planning Institute . |
| 25 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 26 | The Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were regarded as so weak and uncertain in practice that they rarely , if ever , featured in debates on economic policy matters . |
| 27 | As for cleansing and lighting these were regarded as relatively minor details whose provision was hardly important . |
| 28 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
| 29 | Foreign Minister Francisco Ordóñez retained his post , and the Interior and Education ministries also remained under the same ministers who , like Ordóñez , were regarded as relatively independent of the PSOE . |
| 30 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |