Example sentences of "[det] [noun] were [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |
| 2 | Contributors to this volume were given no more precise brief than the provisional subtitle ‘ explorations in philosophy from a feminist perspective ’ , and they are working within quite different philosophical traditions and on different sorts of issues . |
| 3 | He knew she was angry with him for allowing their daughter to join the hunt , traditionally something only a select few men were allowed the honour of , but she would see his way soon enough . |
| 4 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 5 | Some others were fitted a few months ago but they have n't been wired up to the Economy meter and we dare n't use them because we would n't be able to afford the bills . ’ |
| 6 | Five years later it was modified as the Trionic Attak , and some boots were given a ‘ sprung ’ , or slightly curved sole — a simple device that makes for far easier walking , first used in Brasher Boots . |
| 7 | When only a few records were retrieved the default display would be full . |
| 8 | If continuance of such conduct were threatened no one can doubt that a civil court would , at the suit of the victim , restrain by an injunction the continuance of the conduct . |
| 9 | Five rats from each group were given an intraperitoneal injection of 50 mg/ kg bromodeoxyridine ( BrdUrd ) one hour before death . |
| 10 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 11 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 12 | These houses were allocated a month each in a given year . |
| 13 | These discussions were given a sense of urgency by the bitter railway strike of October 1919 . |
| 14 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |
| 15 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 16 | These parents were allowed no role at all . |
| 17 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 18 | Since these calculations were made the government has raised the capital level for those qualifying for housing benefit . |
| 19 | These fish were left a couple of weeks for the tank and filter to mature . |
| 20 | These ideas were given a great push forward by the increasing impact of American thinking on British social policy from the late 1960s onward . |
| 21 | Some of these cheeses were eaten the day they were made , with cream and sugar , some were for almond cheesecakes , some for the fillings of covered pies called Florentines , some for spiced cheese loaves baked in stoneware porringers . |
| 22 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 23 | In the three years since these procedures were introduced the standards of development plans and the annual statements have varied widely . |
| 24 | These pines were considered the holder of the planet 's longevity title until about a decade ago , when botanists studying lichens began to develop a new dating technique . |
| 25 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 26 | Director No. 62668 ‘ Jutland ’ enters Victoria with a local train from Nottingham probably around the time these engines were given a brief return to service from storage at Staveley in 1961 . |
| 27 | As a result , pension funds , insurance companies and other institutions held relatively few of their investments in foreign securities , but as soon as these restrictions were lifted the City embarked on a huge outflow of funds . |
| 28 | Not insignificant in this respect has been the upsurge of Soviet submarine activity in Swedish and Norwegian waters from the time a Whisky class submarine ran aground in October 1981 ; in August 1984 , these incursions were given a new twist by a Sukhoi fighter bomber 's six minute escort of a Swedish airliner into Swedish airspace . |
| 29 | These agents were given the old familiar name for obscure virulent materials , virus , and presented considerable difficulties because they could be detected only by infecting susceptible species and observing whether disease resulted . |
| 30 | These warnings were given a sharp resonance by the horrors , to the aristocratic and respectable bourgeois mind , of the French Revolution . |