Example sentences of "[conj] were [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the programs Carter proposed either were never passed or were drastically rewritten by Congress . ’ |
| 2 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 3 | Of the opposing parties , a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side . |
| 4 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 5 | It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world ; Scandinavian imports to Kent may have come directly or were also channelled through Francia . |
| 6 | At first I was not aware that all the crews in the PFF had been selected by their Groups and , in the main , were either second tour volunteers or were well advanced on their first tour . |
| 7 | Our analysis was based on internal comparisons , and selection bias would be introduced only if the relation of head circumference and ponderal index to death from cardiovascular disease differed in those who were or were not traced . |
| 8 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 9 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 10 | Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed . |
| 11 | Transcript concentrations for genes in that deleted DNA were assessed by hybridization with various probes ( Figure 1 ) , which either overlapped the deleted zone ( SE 162 , HE 143 ) or were completely included thereby ( ND4 , cytochrome b ) . |
| 12 | Much of this time could be wasted while children awaited the teacher 's attention or were simply distracted . |
| 13 | Maybe they all wanted a rest , or did n't rate the £550,000 prize-money , or were n't offered a skins ' game as an enticement to attend . |
| 14 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 15 | In 1712 the Goldsmiths , finding themselves responsible for yearly payments not only to the charities which they supported or were still required to pay for but also to the many hundreds of the Company 's annuities over the years 1695–1709 , resolved to mortgage their properties . |
| 16 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 17 | Japan in particular has been particularly conscious of the devastating effect of mercury poisoning after hundreds of Japanese died or were permanently crippled in the 1950s after exposure to mercury-contaminated fish . |
| 18 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 19 | Any dispositions of property or payments made by the bankrupt between the date of the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the vesting of his assets in his trustee are void except to the extent that they were made with the consent of the court or were subsequently ratified by the court ( s 284(1)-(3) ) . |
| 20 | Normally , married women only applied for re-admission to the union and thus to the trade ( which was not granted automatically ) when their husbands had either died or were severely incapacitated . |
| 21 | The departing partners either decided for themselves that they were uncomfortable with the new management style or were gently helped on their way . |
| 22 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 23 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 24 | Even the superb ‘ All Stations ’ exhibition contained no examples of Latin American stations , nor were any illustrated in the accompanying , and otherwise excellent , book of the same name . |
| 25 | Twice he set up striking partner Kevin Campbell for chances that were well saved by Ipswich 's Canadian goalkeeper Craig Forrest . |
| 26 | The approach used during the study did not follow strictly any prescribed format , but nonetheless made effective use of the soft systems ideas to produce results that were well received by the Principals of the participating Colleges . |
| 27 | This was partly because of respect for Andy Tyrie , the intelligent supreme commander , but even more to the existence of battalions outside Belfast that were well disciplined with dedicated officers and that were free of crime . |
| 28 | What Charles craved was a return to classical architecture , to buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings , that were well proportioned and sensitive to human feelings , and not purely functional . |
| 29 | Refractory pouchitis — We selected 24 cases that were well known to their gastroenterologists and that fit the clinical , endoscopical , and pathological criteria for RP as adopted at an International Workshop on Pouchitis in London in January 1989 , including clinical symptoms ( bloody diarrhoea , malaise , or weight loss , or all three ) ; resistance to treatment with antibiotics and steroids ; and endoscopical features ( serpiginous ulcerations , cobblestone mucosa , or ileitis proximal to the reservoir , or all three ) . |
| 30 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |