Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever risks she took in her career were calculated ones . |
| 2 | ‘ Once repairs were completed things were back to normal again . ’ |
| 3 | The sentences of most of the military prisoners were completed years ago , but nobody is released . |
| 4 | In a large , prefabricated shed we wandered past stacks of 45-gallon drums of PCBs , two drums high , about 10 deep ; and there were contaminated transformers waiting to be cut up and roasted in the flames . |
| 5 | However , if GPs were given budgets for the whole range of patient care for their patients , various problems could arise including incentives to undersupply , especially if GPs were permitted to retain budgetary savings . |
| 6 | As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis . |
| 7 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 8 | The request was politely refused , although we were given directions to the Avila headquarters . |
| 9 | However , during the reign of James I , saucers were given rims and lips to facilitate pouring sauce from them ; these probably being the first ‘ sauce-boats ’ in England . |
| 10 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 11 | Eight artists were given grants to develop work specifically for sites in Norwich and at the Norfolk Institute . |
| 12 | In the towns money soon ceased to circulate in a meaningful manner ; workers were given rations ; all state services were provided free ; school meals were given free to the children , even theatre tickets were distributed among factory workers free . |
| 13 | ‘ In Alistair McAlpine 's day , ’ said John Cole , who was chatting to Amaranth , ‘ we were given lobsters . ’ |
| 14 | When I was at school , we were given spellings to learn every day and were allowed to get two out of ten wrong . |
| 15 | However , the crew helped us aboard and I soon forgot my fright when we were given bananas to eat . |
| 16 | Unprinted goods were given exemptions for the sake of the English textile printing industry , fashionable Indian muslins were smuggled in from the Channel Islands , and the re-export trade to the rest of the world was unaffected , so Indian exports rose steadily . |
| 17 | Elliott and Goldman were given instructions . |
| 18 | We were given maps of the reserve and told how to census the songsters by marking the grid position of each singing bird . |
| 19 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 20 | Businessmen who served as political advisers , like Jeffrey Sterling , Derek Rayner and John Hoskyns were given knighthoods . |
| 21 | These Crown lands were freed from the common rights hitherto exercised over them , in compensation for the extinguishment of royal forest rights : in Windsor Forest the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were given powers to purchase compulsorily the cottages built on them . |
| 22 | To assist in the implementation of IIAs , local authorities were given powers to provide loans and grants for improving amenities , and grants for converting or improving buildings . |
| 23 | The improvement commissioners were given powers which varied in every Act . |
| 24 | They were given powers to ensure adequate elementary and higher education within their areas ; and provision was made for existing schools to transfer to these new authorities . |
| 25 | Local authorities were given powers and responsibilities for children not receiving proper education , or in need of care and control . |
| 26 | Englishmen were given lands to exploit , but also to defend . |
| 27 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 28 | The private ones , being exclusive , aroused bad feelings , but to the public ones people came from miles around and were given things to eat : distant relations , old friends , old acquaintances , old enemies , but no outsiders , no aliens . |
| 29 | However , two officers found not guilty by the military tribunal were given sentences of two and three years . |
| 30 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |