Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ found its way into middle-class consciousness , recreation and religion were deemed to be insufficient for coping with this new and alarming aspect of the youth question . |
| 2 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 3 | The sandstone rocks along its western side were known to be porous , but the engineers predicted that the pores would be blocked by silt . |
| 4 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 5 | In this connection , central government and LEAs were urged to be sensitive to the wishes of some groups to have their daughters educated in single-sex schools . |
| 6 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 7 | Wells calculates that as approximately two-thirds of teenage pregnancies going to full term were reported to be unplanned in a study in South West England , effective contraception therefore has the potential for avoiding 76,000 unwanted teenage pregnancies each year . |
| 8 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |
| 9 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 10 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 11 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 12 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 13 | Rostov realised that signs and shrugs were going to be inadequate . |
| 14 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 15 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 16 | By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports . |
| 17 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 18 | For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used . |
| 19 | Only letter strings which appeared in this dictionary were considered to be correct . |
| 20 | By section 14(2) , vessels were deemed to be British-owned if the legal title in them was vested wholly in qualified persons or companies and they were beneficially owned wholly or mainly by qualified persons or companies . |
| 21 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 22 | In November 1940 , for example , ‘ personal economic worries ’ in the light of the coming second war winter were said to be widespread and to have given rise to ‘ discontented and sceptical thoughts ’ . |
| 23 | During the placebo experiments basal serum gastrin was 10 ( 1 ) pM , meal stimulated serum gastrin values peaked at 54 ( 4 ) pM , while integrated meal stimulated serum gastrin responses were calculated to be 157 ( 13 ) pM/hour ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 24 | NCP leases the car park above Presto in East Street , Darlington , from the local authority which recommended the upper deck be closed eight months ago after crash barriers were discovered to be unsafe . |
| 25 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Firstly , positive school experiences were found to be important . |
| 27 | Only two patients with Crohn 's disease were studied , however , and CD4 + /CD8 + ratios were found to be normal ; similar studies of T cells from inflamed mucosa of patients with Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis have not showed any significant changes from controls . |
| 28 | Both defendants were accepted to be negligent and the plaintiff was contributorily negligent . |
| 29 | Male presenters were expected to be black-tie-dressed while women wore evening gowns , and sometimes even tiaras . |
| 30 | Parts of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester were known to be derelict , semi-ruinous and dangerous 2 years ago . |