Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ He says you were tricked into going to the Chagall museum on the pretext that Barbara Coleman would be there again . |
| 2 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 3 | But he added that in the case of the Korean War the Allies were justified in fighting against the communists . |
| 4 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 5 | One person died and several were wounded in fighting at an opposition party 's rally in Lubumbashi , Shaba region , on April 14 . |
| 6 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 7 | Most carers were aged 45–64 ; and six out of ten were committed to looking after the dependant for at least 50 hours a week . |
| 8 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 9 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 10 | DNA-binding polypeptides in affinity-purified DRTF1/E2F were assayed by crosslinking to the adenovirus E2A promoter distal E2A site ( binding site details indicated at bottom right ) either in the absence ( track 4 ) or presence of competing wild-type ( track 5 ) or mutant ( track 6 ) E2F binding sites ; M r standards shown in track 3 . |
| 11 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 12 | Word got out on that , and they were prevented from getting onto the market . |
| 13 | It was ridiculous that highly trained personnel were prevented from going to the Gulf because of their jobs . |
| 14 | Of the 17,000 demonstrators involved , 1,000 broke away from the agreed route of the march and gathered on the south side of Westminster Bridge , where they were prevented from crossing by a large group of officers . |
| 15 | No embolic signals were seen on recording from the right middle cerebral artery . |
| 16 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 17 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 18 | At one of these city assemblies Mortimer delivered an address which is thought to have been aimed primarily at Edward 's episcopal supporters — Melton , Reynolds , Hethe and others — who were cowed into swearing before the massed Londoners ( whose violence had already been demonstrated against Stapledon ) to uphold the queen 's cause and the liberties of London : thirteen bishops , some notable abbots and two dozen other clergy took the oath that day . |
| 19 | On enquiring their purpose , the boatman explained they were used for drilling by the Orangemen on the estate , but they were passed on each week to the Sinn Feiners for their drill night ! |
| 20 | The cutouts were used for matching to the shoes . |
| 21 | One effect of wiring for trolleybuses was that the two pairs of wires were accommodated in troughing under the bridges at Selhurst and Selby Road . |
| 22 | James Shelton aged 25 , and George Barnes , aged 23 , two Liverpool constables , with a taxi-cab driver named Charles Wareing , were accused of breaking into the Co-operative Stores in Wavertree Road and stealing a safe containing £146 . |
| 23 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 24 | A tragic number of those best equipped to explain the Council 's teaching retired from the clergy in the later 1960s and the 1970s , and thereafter were disqualified from teaching as a ministry in the Church , though there is no moral justification for a general judgement that such persons become unworthy to teach . |
| 25 | The defence , by contrast , called only one witness , as five others who were willing to testify in favour of Gotti were disqualified from appearing by the presiding judge . |
| 26 | Shareholders were precluded from intervening in the ordinary business of the company , no longer being entitled to issue instructions to the directors as to how to exercise their powers . |
| 27 | Staff from both companies were roped into working as a team . |
| 28 | In order to investigate the relationship of these genes to each other , yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) were isolated by screening with the KOX2 cDNA probe . |
| 29 | Eleven independent full-length cDNAs were isolated after screening with a probe encompassing the c- fms first coding exon . |
| 30 | The closure was linked with the failure of the Caledonian Press , and both were greeted with rejoicing by the Circular . |