Example sentences of "were [adv] originally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , managers should not cling blindly to a plan when unfolding events indicate the desirability of actions which were not originally authorized . |
| 2 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |
| 3 | Labov 's quantitative methods ( and his interpretation of results ) were not originally motivated to provide a statement of the relationship between linguistic structure and social structure . |
| 4 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
| 5 | Some rampant males go sticking their members into places that were not originally designed for them . |
| 6 | Given the reality of the current difficulties with the use of office systems as tools to manage large volumes of records ( a task for which , on the whole , they were not originally designed ) , how can records managers contribute to improving the situation primarily for the creating organisations , and indirectly also for other potential users of the records ? |
| 7 | The functions which can later be distinguished as those of ‘ priest ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ bard ’ — and in more modern terms ‘ historian ’ or even ‘ scientist ’ — were often originally exercised by the same individuals or groups of individuals . |
| 8 | One key problem with the more domestically-scaled Georgian pubs is that they were often originally conceived as , or converted from , modest homes . |
| 9 | The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success . |
| 10 | Even if it can be established beyond all reasonable doubt that certain cultural items were indeed originally developed in one place and thence diffused to another , by whatever means ( not excluding industrial espionage ) , this may have no relevance whatsoever to their significance in the new environment . |