Example sentences of "were originally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a small constellation ; the ‘ dogs ’ were originally named Asterion and Chara . |
| 2 | These sediments were originally defined in Germany as the Plattendolomit ( Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ) . |
| 3 | When golf clubs were originally formed they were used more as eating and drinking houses and the favourite tipple was claret . |
| 4 | They were originally formed after reports of harrassing by terriers . |
| 5 | The police were originally formed from the community to represent the community , er , and to protect the community . |
| 6 | If there are other servants , he will expose their laziness — in fact , it was once said that brownies were originally created to help relieve men of the burden caused by Adam . |
| 7 | The biggest category by far in this year 's list is the one for which the awards were originally created back in the 1960s , the Export Awards . |
| 8 | A report recently published by the Council for National Parks calls upon the government to make a much stronger commitment to protect the environmental values for which the parks were originally created . |
| 9 | Acetylcholine , adrenaline , and other hormones with both general and local effects , were originally discovered ( see chapters 4 and 5 ) by examining extracts of tissues of the body for substances which showed physiological effects . |
| 10 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 11 | The second stage is to use this figure ( of so many dies in a sample of so many coins ) to calculate the total likely number of dies which were originally made . |
| 12 | Human beings have good and loving feelings , because God.is love and we were originally made in God 's image . |
| 13 | Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces . |
| 14 | When claims were originally made concerning a cluster at Seascale it seemed quite possible that this was the explanation . |
| 15 | And jeans were originally made for manual labourers . |
| 16 | Traces , records , vestiges of female experience can appear nostalgic in character ; but their witness to a common past is often challenged by present irony and by different , contrary desires to erase such relics or reshape the ground in which they were originally made . |
| 17 | Instead , by virtue of the automatic novation when the Transfer Regulations apply , the contracts of employment continue to have effect after the transfer as if they were originally made between the purchaser and the employee . |
| 18 | If all exports and imports were originally declared in terms of dinars and then converted into ‘ statistical ’ dollars , it should be possible to reconstitute the original dinar values by multiplying up by the ‘ statistical ’ value of the dollar in terms of dinars . |
| 19 | Six officers were originally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and the seventh with unlawful wounding . |
| 20 | Dean and Mrs Dean , and Gorevan , all from Rhyl , North Wales , were originally charged with attempted murder but the charge was reduced yesterday . |
| 21 | Dean and Mrs Dean , and Gorevan , all from Rhyl , North Wales , were originally charged with attempted murder but the charge was reduced yesterday . |
| 22 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |
| 23 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |
| 24 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 25 | It should be realised , however , that the changes which flow from these Acts are not always those which were originally conceived . |
| 26 | It contains articles on a range of topics that were originally presented at the Research in chemical education in the tertiary sector symposium held in Nottingham in September 1990 . |
| 27 | These blazers were originally presented as a new uniform for all dealers . |
| 28 | Where two or more trustees were originally appointed , any one can seek to resign if he and the others are of the opinion that it is no longer expedient to have that number of joint trustees ( r 6.126(4) ) . |
| 29 | There were also 5 ( 6 were originally appointed but in 1988 a firm called Tullets dropped out ) ‘ inter-dealer brokers ’ . |
| 30 | It was in the large , dimly-lit room below and to the left of the ramp , one of those cheerless spaces which Victorian architects ( or their clients ) felt bound to utilise , as with the arches of urban railway viaducts which were originally blocked off to make cheap classrooms for council schools and are now occupied by small garages and furniture makers . |