Example sentences of "[pers pn] were originally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or you 'll find this time that you will be court-martialled and end up in the gaol you were originally intended for . ’ |
| 2 | It will not be easy for him to justify dismissing you because of any lack of capability on your part where that could have been anticipated when you were originally offered the job . |
| 3 | As far as I know , we were originally bound for Greece/Crete but it was too late for that . |
| 4 | Human beings have good and loving feelings , because God.is love and we were originally made in God 's image . |
| 5 | She says we are very concerned that the size off the reservoir and the height of the embankment are much bigger than we were originally told . |
| 6 | In some areas of the Southern North Sea Basin it is evident that post-inversion subsidence ( essentially Tertiary to Recent ) has been of sufficient magnitude to subject previously matured Carboniferous sediments to the depth/temperature regime to which they were originally exposed . |
| 7 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 8 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 9 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 10 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 11 | They were originally built to a Victorian design in the 1920s at Misarden Park near Cirencester , and now they urgently need restoring . |
| 12 | In fact , it turned out that adequate analysis of ( a ) in the main research projects required some adaptation of Labov 's quantitative methods as they were originally formulated ( see further 6.4 ) . |
| 13 | If your wheels are ‘ factory ’ red then they were originally fitted to a fire engine . |
| 14 | It was also the realisation of the fundamental concept behind page description languages , in that they were originally intended to be used for creating displays rather than driving printers , and the beginning of Adobe 's attempt to create a standard for graphics systems , now known as Display PostScript . |
| 15 | Traces , records , vestiges of female experience can appear nostalgic in character ; but their witness to a common past is often challenged by present irony and by different , contrary desires to erase such relics or reshape the ground in which they were originally made . |
| 16 | Instead , by virtue of the automatic novation when the Transfer Regulations apply , the contracts of employment continue to have effect after the transfer as if they were originally made between the purchaser and the employee . |
| 17 | But when they were originally written erm I think it were f seen as fairly low key but now they 've taken , assumed a much greater importance in terms of them being the actual service specification for the new careers services under the , the employment legislation . |
| 18 | They were originally formed after reports of harrassing by terriers . |
| 19 | Accordingly instead of serving the economic function for which they were originally advocated they have been modified to serve the political function of reducing the number of unemployed whilst minimizing intervention in the economy as a whole . |
| 20 | This is how they were originally cut and was , of course , very time consuming — but labour was very cheap two hundred years ago ! |
| 21 | 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out . |
| 22 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 23 | These divertors are magnetic additions to the containment field : they were originally invented for the stellarator but have now been tried in tokamaks such as Culham 's DITE experiment . |
| 24 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 25 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 26 | The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals . |
| 27 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 28 | As I said to you er when I spoke to you on the phone , I wanted to come erm one to introduce myself because I 'm now the new financial adviser for this area , erm also to review your existing policies to make sure that they are doing what they were originally designed to do . |
| 29 | These are called private law remedies because they were originally used only in private law but later came to be used in public law . |
| 30 | In appropriate cases , depending on academic performance , students may transfer from the course to which they were originally admitted to a related course at a different level . |