Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] were [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long believed lost , the plates recently surfaced and were acquired by the Tate Gallery . |
| 2 | In addition , there were a number of other conflicting relationships within this central ( and here , much simplified ) question , which affected and were affected by the course of the war as a military exercise . |
| 3 | The golden pavilion and the peacock feathers flared and were gone in an instant , but the Hill of Heaven took a long while to cave in , and Hell burned with a black , acrid smoke billowing out of its throat . |
| 4 | They rose , they hung almost still , and gradually they declined and were flattened into the bulk of the later books of the Evangel . |
| 5 | Certainly we know from Pope Gregory 's instructions that temples existed and were reused by the Christians . |
| 6 | Some of the components of ‘ North Star ’ survived and were incorporated in a non-working replica built for the Stockton and Darlington centenary . |
| 7 | May I and my right hon. and hon. Friends join in expressing sympathy for those who died or were injured in the atrocity in County Tyrone on Friday ? |
| 8 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 9 | Campaign to reinstate members who resigned or were terminated during the recession.E |
| 10 | A copy of the initial writ requires to be served on ( 1 ) the clerk of the licensing board and ( 2 ) all parties who appeared or were represented at the hearing including the applicant if the appeal is by an objector , at the same time as the initial writ is lodged with the sheriff clerk or as soon as may be thereafter ( para. 3,5.1. 197711622 . |
| 11 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 12 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |