Example sentences of "were [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notions of ‘ political ideology ’ , and of an ‘ assumptive world ’ , were developed to account for their behaviour ( see respectively Dearlove , 1973 ; Young and Kramer , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 3 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 4 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 5 | Twice-weekly counselling sessions were arranged to deal with her glue sniffing . |
| 6 | By April the single Virgin Rose would be in flower and others were listed to bloom throughout the following five months . |
| 7 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 8 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 9 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 10 | The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 11 | Equally , some heads were struggling to deal with colleagues who were challenging by any standards — individuals who were combative , touchy , recalcitrant , bitter , lazy or in any of a variety of other ways uncooperative . |
| 12 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 13 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 14 | transition , erm clearly , er it would be a nonsense if we were making people redundant here ing if er either London or Coventry were struggling to cope with their |
| 15 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 16 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 17 | These three teachers were struggling to survive in an inner-city school and could not give the evaluation project the kind of commitment it really deserved . |
| 18 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 19 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 20 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 21 | Thus her choice of the quaint word , ‘ sweet ’ is no coincidence ; sweetness is the quality Victorian men were taught to prize in a woman above all others . |
| 22 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 23 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 25 | Accordingly , many of the programs in use prior to the introduction of the database were amended to run against the new datafiles . |
| 26 | In March , a judicial inquest into the death of 42 people in Sebokeng township in September 1990 concluded with the presiding judge finding members of the South African Defence Force criminally responsible for the deaths of four people and rejected claims that the concerned were provoked to shoot in self-defence . |
| 27 | Results from Hungary indicated that vaccines were exposed to heat during transport and that facilities for refrigeration were inadequate , and recent British studies have shown that the storage of vaccines is inadequate in general practices and health authority premises . |
| 28 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |
| 29 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 30 | If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) . |