Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Trazior , some of the mountainous stalagmitic hives of Necromunda were wholly disconnected from any neighbour , isolated across immense metallic dunes of glittering despair , across seas of eerie chemical sludge . |
| 2 | The Alexander technique would be invaluable if it were properly included in all drama training programmes . |
| 3 | There is nothing ins intrinsically long with the concept of Percent for Art , but we saw an opportunity to extend that concept to make sure that the real need of real people in real communities were properly reflected in any scheme . |
| 4 | Commissions of oyer et terminer for Forest pleas were rarely issued at this time . |
| 5 | Of the opposing parties , a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side . |
| 6 | ‘ The views of our community were forcibly put at this meeting and to their credit the contractors did halt the work during the community festival , ’ he said . |
| 7 | His appetite for all the other necessities of life had increased and she suspected his carnal instincts were merely turned in another direction . |
| 8 | Also , I suspect , the real country people were better disposed towards each other , materially poorer perhaps , but richer in consideration and manners . |
| 9 | I remember the time when two sheepdogs were daily tethered at this bridge , one at each side , to deter sheep from wandering on the road from the open fell : a sort of canine cattle grid . |
| 10 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 11 | ( Tests to determine the existence of a trade secret were naturally discussed in this case . ) |
| 12 | Indeed they were only introduced after much discussion and some opposition from the auditing industry . |
| 13 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 14 | Epstein as he listened leant towards Brahe , and Brahe as he spoke leant towards Epstein , and they were so involved with each other , and in any case the engine noise was so continuous and enveloping , like the air , that no-one , behind them , could have heard anything ! |
| 15 | Meanwhile the couple in bed were so engrossed in each other that neither of them heard the fuse as it spluttered towards them . |
| 16 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 17 | All teachers were personally briefed on this procedure , which is designed to minimise underreporting of smoking behaviour . |
| 18 | Already , in Example 105 , several zones ( especially those based on semitone clusters ) were obviously composed through this method of working with non-tonal note combinations . |
| 19 | Relations between masters and men were obviously affected by this development . |
| 20 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
| 21 | As many of those variables were obviously correlated with each other , their study according to multivariate methods was mandatory . |
| 22 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 23 | It was only the ITV productions that were not led in this way , except Thames who , although they never had women in their top hierarchy , have always had extremely good women heading production teams . |
| 24 | Other groups of reptiles were not exterminated at this time , even though their fossils may be found in rocks as old as those that yield dinosaurs and the other spectacular , extinct groups . |
| 25 | The Brut suggests that others who were not rewarded in this way also supported the coup , including the younger Bohun brothers Humphrey and William , together with Ralph de Stafford and William de Clinton . |
| 26 | On the procedural side , 9,808 people were arrested in connection with the strike in England and Wales , but nearly one in five of these were not charged with any offence . |
| 27 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 28 | Parietal cell and intrinsic factor blocking antibodies were not detected in any subject with atrophy . |
| 29 | Comprehensive reorganization began in 1965 , although most schools were not reorganized on this basis until the mid-1970s . |
| 30 | Suffice it to say that amongst the people who were not contacted by this project within the first year are some of those seeing doctors on eight occasions . |