Example sentences of "were [verb] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two systems for engineering a ‘ human ’ insulin were developed and most patients have been switched to these engineered products . |
| 2 | Labour 's weak bargaining position , combined with the speed with which new industrial centres such as the Donets basin of the Ukraine were developed and older cities such as St Petersburg expanded , ensured that little attention was given to the needs of the work-force . |
| 3 | Fifteen main programmes were developed and these were divided into over 600 sub-elements . |
| 4 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 5 | Odds ratios were calculated and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounding by age at diagnosis and calendar period . |
| 6 | Specificity and sensitivity values were calculated and statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test for non-parametric data . |
| 7 | There were only about half a dozen of them , and they could see clearly that they were wizened and wrinkled and , quite plainly , not worth gathering |
| 8 | These young gannets , or " gugas " [ the fat ones ] as they are called affectionately by the Gaelic-speaking islanders , were plucked and salted on the spot , then taken home to be stored as food . |
| 9 | Thus , the customs or more exactly the usages , on formal markets — for example , the London Corn Trade Association , the London Stock Exchange , and the London Tallow Market — as well as those in particular trades and professions , were recognized and given effect to . |
| 10 | It is to the credit of the New Zealand breeders that these faults were recognized and several imports from the UK were made specifically to help with this problem , notably NZ Ch. |
| 11 | Subsequently the modifications were completed and all the modified modules were entered into LIFESPAN , albeit with development codes . |
| 12 | Of these 21 , or over half , had considered an MBO in the last 12 months , 15 of these actually started and the result to date is that nine were completed and three are still in progress . |
| 13 | By now the millpond had been lined with heavy-duty polythene to avoid leaks , and the installations in the turbine house were completed and ready for T-Day , as we called it in June 1976 . |
| 14 | To facilitate this investigation both patients were sedated and ventilated , thus preventing further neurological assessment . |
| 15 | However , in order to maintain this defence , it must be shown that the publisher exercised " all reasonable care in relation to the publication " — which means that the publisher took steps to avoid obvious confusion , ensured that sources were checked and that familiar reference works were consulted . |
| 16 | WOMEN were stripped and left naked in solitary confinement . |
| 17 | The local landowners were reinstated and Polish introduced as the official language . |
| 18 | Even when the first owners were crushed and dead , their things were not for you . |
| 19 | His chest , his nipples were swollen and red , bitten and sucked and bleeding . |
| 20 | and his knees they were swollen and raw . |
| 21 | Of the 1,151439 enrolments in session 1990/91 , 740,832 resulted in full success , 147,034 resulted in part success , 227,863 results were withdrawn and 35,710 results were awaited . |
| 22 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 23 | REPEATED attacks on cross-examination by defence barristers of the victims of alleged sexual offences were misplaced and naive , David Cocks QC , chairman of the Criminal Bar Association , told the conference . |
| 24 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 25 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 26 | Housing options were considered , economic feasibility studies were undertaken and potential processor partners were identified . |
| 27 | Their faces were tucked and grey , scooped out or nerveless , but they were tearless faces . |
| 28 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 29 | The airline we 've got to sponsor the exchange is agreeable to the deal including Nicky and the other jock 's wife or girlfriend , and obviously the two of you will be expected to take every opportunity to rave on air about what a wonderful flight you had , how royally you were treated and all the rest of it . |
| 30 | To assess directly the differences between situations which were recalled and those which were not recalled each subject 's mean accident estimate and risk rating was calculated separately for situations which they recalled and those they did not . |