Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 2 | The most influential policy norm in the Maud proposals was that local government services should be so organised that they were made available on the most economic basis possible , having regard to economies of scale . |
| 3 | Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France . |
| 4 | Thanksgiving Buildings ( Fig. 36 ) , which Roberts designed himself , so named because they were built with money given in thanksgiving for the removal of the cholera , were less expensive , ls. per person in a double room . |
| 5 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 6 | We welcome the security that the present orders offer to 1994-95 , but would not Harland and Wolff 's future , as well as that of other British shipyards , be better secured if we were to adopt the policy of new build for Britain 's merchant fleet and thus ensure that shipyards throughout the United Kingdom employ our people and that our seamen have jobs to go to ? |
| 7 | They became so celebrated that they were disturbed by tourists . |
| 8 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 9 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 10 | At last a city official , wearing the blue and mustard livery of the Corporation , decided the burnt-out tenement had been sufficiently destroyed and we were allowed to pass on . |
| 11 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 12 | Given the wide range in dates represented by the fragments ; the fact that no two have yet been found to fit together and vary considerably in size ; and the lack of any signs of wreckage ; the current hypothesis is that the statues were already broken when they were loaded into the transport ship to be taken for re-use elsewhere . |
| 13 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |
| 14 | Working harder for constituents individually would mean more surgeries , not to be easily provided if they were to cover the large constituencies necessitated by the STV . |
| 15 | PWMI comments that plastics from municipal solid waste would be more easily recovered if they were segregated prior to collection . |
| 16 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 17 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |
| 18 | It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch . |
| 19 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 20 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |
| 21 | Blunt gratefully recognized that they were losing height , and rested his neck ; then felt guilty and started searching again . |
| 22 | The divisional controllers also lacked the independence conferred by ministerial appointment on Area Board chairmen , and were more constrained when they were called regularly to London head office conferences . |
| 23 | In the first place people developed a greater objectiveness than they had ever done while they were living in it . |
| 24 | They said stretched services would be further hit if they were made to ‘ pay the price for the Government 's economic mistakes ’ . |
| 25 | Your pension will automatically be permanently increased if you were getting invalidity allowance with invalidity benefit within eight weeks before reaching retirement age . |
| 26 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 27 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 28 | Such flexibility would be further enhanced if they were to accept that questions of law could have more than one possible answer . |
| 29 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth , East ( Mr. Atkinson ) made an eloquent speech about compulsory competitive tendering ; and I was heartened by the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) also realised that we were talking not about compulsory contracting out but about compulsory competitive tendering , which means that there is an opportunity for the in-house team to make a bid . |