Example sentences of "man were [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charges against another man were withdrawn . |
| 2 | Two young women and a man were shot dead in a mobile grocery shop in a predominantly Catholic estate on the outskirts of Craigavon in County Armagh on March 28 . |
| 3 | The Leader and the thin man were seated on a pile of saddles and saddle-bags with their backs against the wall . |
| 4 | The skipper and one other man were convicted of smuggling , each having to pay £1392 , and were gaoled for six months , with a further sentence of six months should the fines be unpaid within three months . |
| 5 | He walked his horse outside the tavern but left Godstowe just before the young woman and man were seen . |
| 6 | Pictures of a man were flashed upon the screen in rapid succession . |
| 7 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 8 | The matter was reported to the police , but the proceedings against the man were discontinued after he had been charged with kidnapping . |
| 9 | New chemicals synthesized by man were found sometimes to have effects on the mind . |
| 10 | One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left . |
| 11 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 12 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 13 | The bones of Halling Man were removed and sent to Professor Arthur Keith the foremost archaeologist of his day who later as Sir Arthur Keith , was to write a whole chapter in his book The Antiquity of Man 1915 , on Halling Man . |
| 14 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 15 | She and her mystery man were spotted outside her parents ' home in Fulham , west London . |
| 16 | I see now why many men were lost out there . |
| 17 | Data from the 1981 census indicates that 7 per cent of women aged 65 — 69 and 17 per cent of men were defined as economically active ( see Figures 2.12 , 2.13 ) . |
| 18 | The military prosecutor had applied for nine death sentences , but when the sentences were announced on Aug. 30 five men were acquitted , 11 received sentences ranging from one to 20 years ' imprisonment , and the group 's leader Habib Lessoued received life imprisonment . |
| 19 | Overall the level of wealth was slightly raised in the subsidy , indeed by more than 25 per cent — from £57 to £71 — in the Newport hundreds where many more men were swept into the net . |
| 20 | Eventually both men were bundled into a police car and driven away . |
| 21 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 22 | An armada of small private boats and a flotilla of naval vessels sailed to the rescue ; more than three hundred and fifty thousand men were saved , men who were able to return to the battle against Hitler 's armies in Europe and Africa . |
| 23 | Mr Samra said both men were wanted for involvement with criminal gangs in Bombay . |
| 24 | These men were landed at different places and conveyed to the depot ship . |
| 25 | In Washington , DC , in 1989 nearly four times as many black men were jailed in the district 's prison as graduated from its public schools ; the leading cause of death among young black men is murder . |
| 26 | Two North-East men were jailed recently for a number of crimes involving horse theft , including that of Mrs James ' animals . |
| 27 | Two Darlington men were jailed for four months by magistrates yesterday for their part in an attempted burglary of a terraced house in the town . |
| 28 | TWO men were jailed at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday on forged £20 bank notes charges . |
| 29 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 30 | Outcome ( Table 2 ) was generally similar for both groups , although considerably more men were placed on section 3 and rather more women on section 2 . |