Example sentences of "were [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Pope Gregory VII , formerly the Archdeacon Hildebrand and as such responsible for the administration of church property , relationships with monarchs and monasteries were developed which bound rulers and institutions to the Holy See . |
| 2 | In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA . |
| 3 | If they were sacked they stood to lose old-age and long-service premiums . |
| 4 | He was suspicious because they were unloading what turned out to be stolen property at a friend 's flat . |
| 5 | Outspoken speeches were given which received spontaneous standing ovations . |
| 6 | Trainees at Harvard Securities were not in practice made to send out details on stocks to clients they were pitching who had n't dealt three times , as all dealers were supposed to . |
| 7 | In addition 25 other trade-related agreements were ratified which included the mutual reduction of tariffs and export duties on 350 manufactured goods ; the freeing of restrictions on nearly all primary agricultural produce and the equalizing of tariffs of 170 food items ; and a bilateral annual trade of 10,000 vehicles . |
| 8 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |
| 9 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 10 | Approximately 270 proposals were received which resulted in around 160 validation events . |
| 11 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |
| 12 | The girls that were using it reckoned that they were contacting ‘ the spirit world ’ but I reckoned it was all a big con trick . |
| 13 | She was oddly quiet , seemed in an odd mood altogether , though not an unhappy one : while they were eating she sat staring over the valley with a dreamy look in her eyes and a small , secret smile on her face . |
| 14 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 15 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 16 | The Shah had Amir Aslan Afshar find among the Iranians in Morocco some Iranian currency for those who were returning home-they went back with more than $50,000 . |
| 17 | On the deck itself were scattered what looked like paving stones , and the leeboard winch had been somewhat garishly painted in red , white , and gold . |
| 18 | For those of us who focused our energies on lesbian and feminists issues we were to find ourselves marginalized and isolated in English feminist groups , amongst women whose racism mirrored the population at large . |
| 19 | We were to find it repeated elsewhere over the following two weeks . |
| 20 | For example , if an offline system were designed which destroyed all offline copies when bringing a module back online , then there is a possibility that files could be lost if the system crashes immediately following the restore before the online version had been safely backed up using the normal VMS system back-up procedures . |
| 21 | As Bf109s were reported they stayed well above the other squadron , but to no avail . |
| 22 | In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics . |
| 23 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 24 | When direct dealing costs , brokerage and VAT were included they tended to help filter out the trades that were only marginally profitable and hence raised the overall profitability . |
| 25 | Patients were included who had presented aged 40 to 64 years with documented features of dementia . |
| 26 | Er but we can write these with some f flexibility , and erm there is a deferred income version , where you can run it so you were say you did n't need income five years , you can run it for five years , then la then leave it erm and just take the annuity income as er as , as er regular income . |
| 27 | When Pamela 's parents were interviewed they spent a lot of time emphasizing how necessary they thought it was to discipline Pamela . |
| 28 | In the excitement of his new job and other things that were happening he pushed the thought of Chris to the back of his mind until he realised that Maureen looked red-eyed and unhappy . |
| 29 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 30 | When Piggy 's glasses were smashed he became worthless . |