Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , the rent guarantees that they were given have been honoured . |
| 3 | To earn that morale-boosting address , we were expected to stop being foolish children , abandon sloppy working and ‘ spilling liquids ’ , and behave like responsible folk . |
| 4 | The questions our friends were dying to ask were those which the tabloids have trumpeted ever since the case came into the public domain . |
| 5 | Followers of Leavis thought themselves superior in sensibility to the debased majority who were deemed to have been corrupted by democratic industrial society . |
| 6 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 7 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 8 | But windows were reported to have been blown out in homes more than 1,000 yards away . |
| 9 | In two separate instances , at least four persons were reported to have been killed Peshawar and Karachi after being hit by stray bullets as a result of aerial firing by trigger happy individuals . |
| 10 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 11 | A second teenage boy died in hospital , and at least 14 other people , including an eight-month-old baby , were reported to have been wounded . |
| 12 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 13 | Somewhat less than twice that number were reported to have been injured . |
| 14 | A total of 38 rebels were reported to have been extradited to Vietnam on Jan. 14 , 1990 , and were given prison sentences ranging from six to 15 years . |
| 15 | During the remainder of the month there were frequent outbreaks of violence ; during the night of March 23-24 alone , 17 people were reported to have been killed . |
| 16 | Some 200 of Aguinaldo 's supporters were reported to have been captured , but a further 100 or more , including Aguinaldo , escaped . |
| 17 | Anti-Hungarian demonstrations had intensified on March 19 in Tirgu Mures when nationalists , many of whom were reported to have been brought in from neighbouring villages , stormed the headquarters of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) while police and soldiers present reportedly refused to intervene . |
| 18 | Twenty-four people were reported to have been injured . |
| 19 | At least two people were reported to have been killed . |
| 20 | Several students were reported to have been arrested . |
| 21 | Despite an intensified terror campaign by , predominantly , the Maoist Sendero Luminoso ( Shining Path ) guerrillas to disrupt the elections , the deployment of an estimated 300,000 soldiers and police ensured that polling day passed off relatively peacefully , although at least 55 people were reported to have been injured in bomb attacks on April 7-8 . |
| 22 | Moreover large quantities of food awaiting shipment to drought-stricken areas were reported to have been destroyed in the fighting . |
| 23 | By May 31 an estimated 1,482 contras were reported to have been demobilized . |
| 24 | By the end of the month 775 former members of the StB were reported to have been dismissed . |
| 25 | On May 8 , Islamic fundamentalist demonstrators were reported to have been violently beaten by paramilitary police and men in civilian clothes wielding clubs , during the largest demonstration ever held in Rabat , the Moroccan capital . |
| 26 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 27 | Argentina , along with Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Uruguay , were reported to have been willing to propose a 50 per cent reduction in tariff levels and a 10 per cent increase in the list of goods covered . |
| 28 | However , US relief workers who flew into Tehran on June 25 with medical supplies and food were reported to have been prevented from going to the affected provinces , while Kayhan , one of Iran 's largest-circulation newspapers , accused the USA of being mean with its aid and of hoping to reap diplomatic benefits by offering " one or two million dollars " . |
| 29 | Drugs worth more than US$4,300,000 were reported to have been seized by police in Swaziland in late December 1989 . |
| 30 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |