Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she had n't been linked to the blackamoor , the cards were stacked against flight . |
| 2 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 3 | You were ripped off man . |
| 4 | One half was stained with β -gal to verify phenotype , and in the other half efferent cranial nerves emerging from the hindbrain were traced in paraformaldehyde fixed embryos 10–10.5d.p.c. by injecting small volumes DiIC 18 ( 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3' — tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate , molecular probes , 5mgml -1 in dimethylformamide ) at their exit points . |
| 5 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 6 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 7 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 8 | Stretchers , beds and floors were spattered with blood . |
| 9 | The larger troops , plausibly , were developed as protection from diurnal predators . |
| 10 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 11 | Secondly , questionnaires were developed for self completion by other clinicians and non-medical staff in the practice . |
| 12 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 13 | The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing . |
| 14 | The rootstocks were developed at government research stations and are still known by their reference numbers . |
| 15 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 16 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 17 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 18 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 19 | From that time , a long series of rigorous studies were developed in cognizance of the methodological problems , many of the recent ones using the WFS surveys and computerized data processing and analytical techniques ( see for example , Wray , 1971 ; Fedrick and Adelstein , 1973 ; Wolfers and Scrimshaw , 1975 ; Spiers and Wang , 1976 ; Gray , 1981 ; Baldion , 1981 ; Swenson , 1981 ; Carlaw and Vaidya , 1983 ; Fortney and Higgins , 1983 ; Hobcraft , et al , 1983 ; Martin et al , 1983 ; Cleland and Sathar , 1984 ; De Sweemer , 1984 ; Palloni and Tienda , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
| 21 | Slides were developed in diamino benzadine-hydrogen peroxide ( DAB ) in Tris buffer for 5 minutes , then washed in tap water . |
| 22 | ProActive 's products were developed in collaboration with Mohr general partner , William Davidow . |
| 23 | Plates were developed in chloroform : methanol:water ( 65:25:4 v/v/v ) and the bands visualised by iodine staining . |
| 24 | Originally , these were developed in connection with university extension courses in the late-nineteenth century and established the tradition of summer meetings for study at Oxford , Cambridge and at other universities . |
| 25 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 26 | It was as if he were gazing into heaven , and Agatha was n't so old that she 'd forgotten what that felt like . |
| 27 | Three small black kids had gathered around Armstrong 's bonnet and were gazing in wonder at the gently vibrating engine . |
| 28 | Foulston himself wrote of the group that : ‘ it occurred to him that if a series of edifices , exhibiting the various features of the architectural world , were erected in conjunction and skilfully grouped , a happy result might be obtained . |
| 29 | Like the triumphal arches these were erected in honour of victorious generals . |
| 30 | Over two thousand Bailey bridges were erected in north-west Europe between June 1944 and May 1945 and the design was also used extensively in Italy and the Far East . |