Example sentences of "were [verb] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee . |
| 2 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 3 | During this time updating and regular reporting procedures were developed and the necessary programs written . |
| 4 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 5 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 6 | On 24 May police stations were sacked and the stock exchange was set alight . |
| 7 | The swamps were drained and the pirates were chased out . |
| 8 | Care was taken to ensure that the River Garonne remained open to shipping all the way from Bordeaux to Toulouse ; swamps were drained and the forests lining the river banks were cleared . |
| 9 | The ex-Croydon & District cars reposing at Mitcham Road depôt were renumbered and the B.E.T . |
| 10 | The new buildings on the Convent site were brought gradually into use over the next five years as the planned refurbishments were completed and the School slowly expanded with each new mixed intake . |
| 11 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 12 | Long-range tanks were fitted and tested , guns were checked and the Hurricanes generally prepared for the flight from Benina ( near Benghazi ) to Malta . |
| 13 | Disbursements from an IMF standby credit arrangement and a World Bank structural adjustment loan were halted and the IMF announced the postponement of the completion date for Jordan 's economic restructuring programme from 1993 to 1995 . |
| 14 | Again beds were stripped and the bedclothes carried upstairs . |
| 15 | Three options were given and the basic tasks column was taken to indicate work that could only be done under supervision or instruction , or the repetitive work such as feeding . |
| 16 | The pots were heated and the essential oils rose in the steam and became lodged within the wool . |
| 17 | From September 1987 , the traditional ‘ block grants ’ to a cartel of National Education Centres were withdrawn and the market was thrown open to any supplier to compete for contracts . |
| 18 | it does n't who 's responsibility would it be to see that the old brochures were withdrawn and the new brochures were put on in there place ? |
| 19 | My instinct is to put all this down to the vitiating effect of the Thatcher years , when proper provisionalism , breadth , pluralism and doubt were banished and the harsh , amoral glitter of ends attained-by-whatever-means held sway . |
| 20 | The morning sky was blue as yet but storm clouds were gathering and the wind seemed on the change . |
| 21 | Despite the commercial success of this unit and the facility which it offered of training in a range of skills , places were limited and the site was inaccessible from the south of the district . |
| 22 | The complaint that there is never a moment 's peace is countered by some nurses who say that such a system allows for a ‘ snooze hour ’ after lunch when no routine tasks were undertaken and the ward was as quiet as possible . |
| 23 | He was patted down and given a cup of tea and a sausage roll to bolster him up while the children were gathered and the room darkened in anticipation . |
| 24 | Over 20 entries were received and the joint entry by Cox and Duncan caught the eye of the judging panel , Don Maxwell , Hamid Khatib , Jim Caven-Atack , Joe Leghorn and Roger Walls . |
| 25 | The shoes were examined and the discrepancy between them noted . |
| 26 | The ears were examined and the presence or absence of fluid was noted before inspection of the case notes or pharynx . |
| 27 | If the goods were examined and the defect was negligently not identified , this makes the examiner a cause of the damage . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the way in which the issues were formulated and the phrasing of the questions were such that no credence can be given to the findings of the survey or to the general conclusion of the Royal Commission that ‘ there was no evidence from this enquiry of productive effort being inhibited by the income tax structure within its present limits . ’ |
| 29 | By January , plans were formulated and the action began . |
| 30 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |