Example sentences of "[vb pp] were [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tropical Plants experts as the team was to be called were all seen tending the plants throughout the shopping centre . |
| 2 | Among hundreds of pupils affected were special needs children who missed swimming lessons . |
| 3 | Those who had their immunity waived were all noted parliamentary figures : Carlo Tognoli ( PSI ) , the Minister of Tourism in the previous government , two other PSI members Paolo Pillitteri and Renato Massari , Antonio Del Pennino from the Italian Republican Party and Gianni Cervetti from the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS , formerly the Communist Party of Italy ) . |
| 4 | The Mayor of Liverpool opened an appeal to assist them , and the eight men against whom a " true bill " was ultimately found were all discharged on agreeing to enlist in the Navy for war service . |
| 5 | He said recently : ‘ I would not say no if United were willing to release me . |
| 6 | The only muniments which had been catalogued were those dating from before about 1650 . |
| 7 | Because of the lack of a pervasive craft history , since Japan incorporated advanced mechanisation and new technologies at a comparatively early stage in its development , the unions which were formed were unable to make a sharp separation among job groups a basis for organisation . |
| 8 | The day from which the Romans calculated and the day to be designated were both included , for example , 2 January was designated ante diem IV Non . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal required the council to give such an undertaking , as a condition of the grant of an injunction , first because , as Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held , in English law the discretion to dispense with such an undertaking in cases where an injunction is sought to restrain an infringement of the criminal law is available only to give effect to a privilege of the Crown alone and does not extend to local authorities exercising the function of law enforcement ; and second because under Community law an undertaking must be given were necessary to protect any Community law right of direct effect which might possibly be affected . |
| 10 | but those left were all spoken for . |
| 11 | Another opinion poll , published in the magazine Cambio 16 , found that only 8% of those questioned were prepared to die for their country . |
| 12 | planned were all despised . |
| 13 | Specifically mentioned were those connected with anti-war movements , especially those demonstrating against American involvement in Vietnam . |
| 14 | There was no doubt in Barratt 's mind , that when the stamps being assembled were ready to work , they would pay their way . |