Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend and I were made very welcome at the centre — the staff , atmosphere and facilities were excellent , as was the food . |
| 2 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
| 3 | Often , as many as half the inhabitants of a Victorian market town were craftsmen who both lived and worked on premises which were sited as near to the market place as possible . |
| 4 | For local governments which were judged broadly comparable , these statistics show considerable variation and suggest that Rochester was performing badly . |
| 5 | Trees are less important as takers-up of CO 2 than are marine diatoms , and most of the world 's trees grow ( or grew ) in the tropical forests , which were left largely unscathed until recent centuries . |
| 6 | The full manufacturers ' list of 24 models which were considered not satisfactory ( and presumably failed the government test ) is : Boots 500 ; Brother MF1200PW and MF3200DB ; Electrolux NF4061 , NF4065 and NF4076 ; Goldstar ER350ME and ER535ME ; Hoover H6312 ; Matsui 260TC ; Moulinex 059 ; Philips AVM625 and AVM734 ; Proline M3030 ; Russel Hobbs 8504 ; Samsung RE570D , RE576D and RE990CT ; Sanyo EM2714BR ; Sharp R-7A50M and R-8H50(B)T ; Toshiba ER9610EW-1 and ER9630E ; Tricity MH1081 . |
| 7 | These compromises , resulting in records which were considered musically acceptable in those days , mean ethical decisions when we come to play them back today ; should we even try to restore the original ‘ fidelity ’ ? |
| 8 | Supposing she were found not guilty in Manila on whatever charges the government brought against her ? |
| 9 | It concentrated instead on living examples of people who were judged highly creative , thereby making it possible to evaluate them at first-hand on objective personality tests or similar assessment procedures . |
| 10 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 11 | Garment workers , who were paid really bad wages and had a strike and struggled for union recognition , and I think that 's the thing that women have gone on doing over the years . |
| 12 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 13 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 14 | You were knocked out cold , and a head wound coupled with alcohol can be serious . ’ |
| 15 | I mean I always thought if you were parked too close to it , they take your number and next thing you know , you get a , a , a summons come through the post . |
| 16 | So you were left quite unprepared for the lightning 10K race start , made worse this time around by a shouted count-down . |
| 17 | And when your time was out there was no question of you not getting a journeyman 's wages you were you were paid that alright . |
| 18 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 19 | I reckon we were born too early Ive . |
| 20 | So we were kept pretty busy . |
| 21 | This was early music at its best — we were led somewhere new , moved close to tears , and booted back , smartly , into laughter . |
| 22 | We were led down black-and-white-tiled corridors , through a series of presence chambers , all huge and hung with tapestries which Wolsey had brought from abroad . |
| 23 | We were made very welcome , though true to bureaucracy everywhere nobody knew we were coming ! |
| 24 | Mrs Wingate , divisional superintendent for the St John Ambulance said : ‘ We were made very welcome and the facilities offered were marvellous . ’ |
| 25 | Later , we were offered more technical production tips during a screening of several flawed amateur efforts . |
| 26 | Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras . |
| 27 | When we moved to the new building we were promised vastly improved facilities , not a canteen but a carpeted restaurant , with special facilities for conferences and for private business lunches . |
| 28 | we were put here temporary because we had near enough all our valuables and furniture stolen in Armagh . |
| 29 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 30 | In consequence , it has been claimed that the buildings were seldom used , but a more likely explanation is that they were kept scrupulously clean for official travellers . |