Example sentences of "[be] [verb] were [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 14 detainees whose sentences had been reduced were freed on Aug. 14 from prisons in Mandalay , Tharawaddy and Toungoon , Radio Burma announced . |
| 2 | At Ainaro , as many men as could be collected were put under Gerry Mackenzie 's command — there was nothing ‘ base ’ about these wallahs . |
| 3 | The grounds on which this remedy could be sought were summarized by Lord Diplock in the GCHQ case under the three headings of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety . |
| 4 | The effect , however , turned out to be a somewhat elusive one in subsequent research , until the conditions under which it can be obtained were elucidated by Johnston and McClelland ( 1973 ) . |
| 5 | As explained in the introduction , the diagnostic groups , age groups , calendar periods , and areas to be analysed were agreed in advance of the analyses being carried out . |
| 6 | Five of the eight prisoners due to be released were convicted of terrorism and sentenced for life in the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964 . |
| 7 | No prices or details of the hardware environments that are supported were given by Versant . |
| 8 | The 400 or 500 councils of action which were formed were ridden with dispute and inefficiency . |
| 9 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 10 | The jails where the demonstrators were held were deluged with letters and Christmas food parcels . |
| 11 | Sweeping changes in the way Durham county fire brigade is run were approved by county councillors on Thursday . |
| 12 | Berry , from Bramerton , Norfolk , was originally convicted in 1983 of making electronic timers for detonating bombs which it was claimed were intended for use in Syria and the Lebanon . |
| 13 | All the non-matrimonial cases of which the start was observed were concluded without litigation — although four years later one was settled within a week of a scheduled county court hearing . |
| 14 | FROM 1984–90 guesses that cash flow could be higher if assets changed hands or if a firm 's financial structure was changed were made in $1.7 trillion-worth of cases in America . |