Example sentences of "[verb] were [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro . |
| 2 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 3 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 4 | At the end of the year l9X1 it was found that actual production overhead costs amounted to £160,000 in cost centre X and £138,000 in cost centre Y. The total direct labour cost in cost centre X was £144,200 and the machine hours used were 18,000 in cost centre Y during the year . |
| 5 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 6 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 7 | In order to find out where an image will be , it is only necessary to know were two of the rays go . |
| 8 | Cape Building Products accepted that any asbestos related conditions Mr McKenzie was shown to suffer were attributable to its fault . |
| 9 | The standard of the candidates interviewed were all of a very high quality and the final choice was extremely difficult . |
| 10 | Other deaths reported were 20 in the Netherlands , 10 in Belgium , eight in France , seven in West Germany , and four in Denmark . |
| 11 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 12 | Significantly , the villages which tended to disappear were those with a low proportion of peasant proprietors ( 83 , p.28 ) . |
| 13 | As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line . |
| 14 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 15 | It was announced on April 5 that Japan had further agreed to revise , within one year , certain laws on the retail sector which the USA had claimed were monopolistic in character . |
| 16 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 17 | More than three in four of the 828 adults interviewed were upset by dirty toilets at departure points while 74 per cent complained about lack of information when travel delays occurred . |
| 18 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 19 | Even today , the toll of addictive disease is still terrible yet many of those who die were aware of the 12 Steps and of the other recommendations of the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 20 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 21 | The organizations we studied were involved in a widely differing range of activities . |
| 22 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 23 | They are as agile as goats on their spindly legs , and can be seen grazing on cliff ledges which you would swear were inaccessible to anything without wings . |
| 24 | A survey by the Spastics Society during the 1987 general election found that half the polling stations surveyed were inaccessible for people with disabilities . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 26 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 27 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 28 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 29 | The odds were always against Oxford at Villa Park … trailing by a goal from the first leg United were desperate for a flying start … they were nearly grounded in the opening minutes by Dean Saunders … |
| 30 | There was still a general assumption that the self-confidence and savoir-faire they conferred were essential in any aspirant to one of the major embassies . |