Example sentences of "were [verb] and [det] " 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 | Fifteen main programmes were developed and these were divided into over 600 sub-elements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Subsequently the modifications were completed and all the modified modules were entered into LIFESPAN , albeit with development codes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had drunk very little , a small glass of wine while they were eating and another ten minutes before they came in . |
| 14 | During the course of the four hours , twenty-four cups of coffee were consumed and any amount of light snacks . |
| 15 | No canal crossing the constantly changing contours of the English Midlands ever had enough water , so a significant increase in traffic would only be possible if existing supplies were conserved and more supplies developed . |
| 16 | A potential offeror or its advisers may accordingly acquire shares in the target and use this right to ascertain the compensation which would be payable to directors of the target if they were dismissed and any golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.1 below ) which may exist . |
| 17 | The majority of screenwriters were dismissed and half the production staff sacked . |
| 18 | But I says , that they were , I , that he were n't satisfied when it were vibrating and that . |
| 19 | Additional WCs were installed , then someone had the alarming thought that at the ceremony 's climax when the entire Abbey would be hushed as the crown was placed on her Majesty 's head , there might occur one of those terrible historical coincidences whereby all the WCs were occupied and all the occupants pulled the chain simultaneously . |
| 20 | And so every night when they got home there was all kinds of people , I mean you know say miners and anybody as well , they all surrounded this house and when the police brought him in , of course they were booing and all this business you see . |
| 21 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 22 | Many refugee servicemen were decorated and many gave their lives to their adopted country . |
| 23 | First we want to ask anyway whether there is n't likely always to be some truth which , if it alone were added and all others excluded , would defeat my justification . |
| 24 | They er were recommended And most of the they were clean jobs . |
| 25 | All the allegations about his membership of the Communist Party were paraded and much was made of his role in London in leading a little group known as ‘ The Circle ’ . |
| 26 | Both were happening and enough English people came to live in sufficient comfort to maintain the demand for manufactured goods through the eighteenth century , even though food prices rose steeply and in sharp contrast to the deep and widespread poverty of much of the labouring population . |
| 27 | She said , ‘ It is n't that , ’ but the words were muffled and all he caught was her tone of voice , thick with distress and remorse . |
| 28 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 29 | Also , sets were organised and much of the set decoration such as trucks , cars , and period pieces were stored and prepared for use in the film . |
| 30 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |