Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a bright start , Liverpool were eventually shown up as a brittle , spiritless outfit whose heads dropped when the roll of the dice went against them . |
| 2 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 3 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 4 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 5 | These were swiftly put down by a detachment of the newly established Armed Police firing tear gas into the crowds . |
| 6 | Specimens were gently spread out on a flat surface , flooded with 2.5% glutaraldehyde buffered in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate solution , and fixed for four to six hours . |
| 7 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 8 | Cov 's attacks were generally snuffed out with a solid offiside trap , and in the event of that not working , Fairclough being on hand to snuff out any breakthroughs . |
| 9 | The NAO , the taxpayers ' representative , said that by 31 March last year records of loans amounting to £21.3 million were incorrectly transferred out of a computer system for a considerable period . |
| 10 | Strong performances by most parts of the food conglomerate were largely cancelled out by a slump at the US subsidiary , Keebler , according to Sir Robert Clarke , the chairman . |
| 11 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 12 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
| 13 | TWO teenagers who attacked a group of sixth-formers after a party , leaving one with a double fracture of the jaw , were yesterday locked up by a judge . |
| 14 | They were also set up as a way of avoiding off-site referral . |
| 15 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 16 | At least people knew where they stood with him , and the darkened corridors of local government , with their forbidding and ever-present whiff of graft and back-scratching , were now lit up in a blaze of publicity . |
| 17 | The Marine Commandos were well dug in in a wooded area just off the road and close to the village . |
| 18 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 19 | Mr Clarke said he understood his staff were simply referred back to a January meeting with Mrs Shephard 's predecessor Michael Howard . |
| 20 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 21 | His thoughts were abruptly cut off by a blinding flash of pain . |
| 22 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 23 | None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances . |
| 24 | Pronunciations of the target feature were covertly marked down in a notebook on the spot , using a simple preset schema . |
| 25 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |