Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 2 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 3 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 4 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 5 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 6 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 7 | In Victoria Street Lytle 's and McCausland 's warehouses were completed two years before Ewart 's . |
| 8 | Nests were checked 2–6 times a week . |
| 9 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 10 | The 17 trucks were halted 25 miles short of the town of Tuzla while UN aides negotiated for a path to be cleared of mines . |
| 11 | At parties occasionally we will recall the full horror of the event in one of those conversations which goes something like : ‘ You were delayed six hours and then had to be diverted to a branch line 50 miles out of your way on a train that had no heating and no buffet . |
| 12 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 13 | Most of the Act dealt with control , but local authorities were given wide powers to provide caravan sites . |
| 14 | What they did at a branch on our district erm , again it was just like set up , people were given specific tasks , but at the end of the three month cycle , they 'd change some people , er , those people 's tasks so that they , so they would n't get stagnant , and plus , if one person was off , if you happened to be on holiday , you 've got somebody else that can do the job at the standard and not let the standard fall . |
| 15 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 16 | In the following decade many local police forces were given new powers to discipline drunk and disorderly street-walkers , powers strengthened under the Licensing Act , 1872 . |
| 17 | Several ministers were given new portfolios , including Chu Okongwu , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , who was reassigned to special duties , marking the return of responsibility for the budget to the Finance and Economic Planning Ministry . |
| 18 | Many of the houses were given new façades in the Renaissance and then again in the late 17 and 18C . |
| 19 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 20 | Subjects were given varying amounts of contextual information . |
| 21 | UDCs were given certain powers to achieve these objectives . |
| 22 | Where men with no history of heart problems were given cholesterol-lowering drugs , similar results were produced . |
| 23 | Individuals who were expelled for political activity or failure to meet the fees — or simply for poor examination results — were given additional grounds for grievance , while the punishment of an entire college tended to strengthen student esprit de corps . |
| 24 | In 1889 , the counties were given additional responsibilities and subsequently the four largest cities became counties of cities — the equivalent of the English county boroughs . |
| 25 | Twenty eight ( 12% ) of those in the not breathless category , 197 ( 23% ) of those who were moderately breathless , 217 ( 54% ) of those who were breathless and distressed , and 27 ( 82% ) of those who were too breathless to talk were given nebulised bronchodilators . |
| 26 | Hypertensives in the experimental group received intensive advice about their blood pressure , including guidance on weight control and salt restriction , and if that did n't work they were given anti-hypertensive drugs . |
| 27 | Before the war , foods such as butter and cheese were given two layers of wrappers by the counter hand , but this was reduced to one under the restrictions . |
| 28 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 29 | The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000 . |
| 30 | Lords and peasants were given two years to prepare charters which would map out the peasants ' " portions of arable land " and define the extent of their " obligations " . |