Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crates of beer were stacked ready for consumption . |
| 2 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | In the circumstances James Cunningham felt that Captain Robert Cunningham 's election hopes would be considerably strengthened if Morris were proven wrong , and accordingly advised Lord Milton that |
| 5 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 6 | Agency records , which recorded all referrals , were checked weekly to confirm that ASWs had completed questionnaires where relevant . |
| 7 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 8 | While many of the bolts were placed prior to the issue of the BMC policy document , they still break the tradition against placing bolts or pegs on grit for any reason . |
| 9 | He found that there were reasons to believe that bodies were placed supine below the pyre and that the average temperature achieved was about 900° C , but the quantity of fuel required was not determined . |
| 10 | The subjects were placed supine under a gamma camera and we waited at least one hour to allow the patients to recover from the procedure . |
| 11 | Anaesthetised mice were placed supine on cork boards and steadied by elastic bands around the four limbs . |
| 12 | This courier service could be most economically operated if both pollen and egg were placed close together on the plant . |
| 13 | A microphone and musical instruments were placed ready for a band . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , hunters and gatherers were placed low while irrigating cultivators were placed high , then these activities were linked directly with such institutions as rules concerning property , the status of women , the type of government , and the kinship system . |
| 16 | The Ides , or days when there was a full moon , were sacred to him and his shrines were placed high on mountain tops . |
| 17 | Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver . |
| 18 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 19 | The Mites did a great deal of touring and were given outdoor clothing , often a hooded cloak , socks and shoes , even a suitcase each . |
| 20 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 21 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 22 | Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds . |
| 23 | All patients were advised to achieve a daily intake of at least 700 mg of calcium ; five patients were unable to take sufficient dairy products to sustain this and were given oral calcium supplements . |
| 24 | Most of the Act dealt with control , but local authorities were given wide powers to provide caravan sites . |
| 25 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 28 | Under the leadership of Lord Denning and Lord Reid , old common law principles of natural justice were given new content and value . |
| 29 | Many of the houses were given new façades in the Renaissance and then again in the late 17 and 18C . |
| 30 | 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 . |