Example sentences of "be [verb] were [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When six patients with duodenal ulsers in whom H pylori had been eradicated were retested after 12 months , we found that the median basal acid output fell by about 40% , although the change was not significant . |
| 2 | Accusations that tickets had been over-sold were refuted by the management , who blamed the crushed conditions inside on the band 's huge guest list . |
| 3 | Some 21 per cent of all flows into unemployment by men who had previously been employed were accounted for in this way , slightly more than were accounted for by redundancy ( 20 per cent ) or dissatisfaction with pay or conditions ( 19 per cent ) and considerably more than were accounted for by dismissals ( 10 per cent ) ( Wood , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | A total of 14 detainees whose sentences had been reduced were freed on Aug. 14 from prisons in Mandalay , Tharawaddy and Toungoon , Radio Burma announced . |
| 5 | Many of the units to be withdrawn were expected to be sent to join US forces in the Gulf region . |
| 6 | Ten years ago , applications for cases to be heard were dealt with relatively swiftly , but a dramatic increase in their work load has produced a situation where despite the appointment of more judges to the Official Referee 's court , applicants are having to wait up to two or three years to have their cases heard . |
| 7 | Appeals by defence lawyers for the charges to be dropped were rejected by the prosecution , and federal judge Royce Lamberth , who had presided over the initial trial , set Oct. 19 as the date for George 's re-trial . |
| 8 | Back then , those things which could n't be said were hinted at in the grain of those luscious voices . |
| 9 | At Ainaro , as many men as could be collected were put under Gerry Mackenzie 's command — there was nothing ‘ base ’ about these wallahs . |
| 10 | The only Armenian remains to be saved were found in the desert around Deir Ez-Zohr . |
| 11 | The grounds on which this remedy could be sought were summarized by Lord Diplock in the GCHQ case under the three headings of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety . |
| 12 | Even so , the advertising media that could be used were restricted to printed forms and the advertising of professional fees was still not permitted . |
| 13 | Those monuments to be protected were included in a list or Schedule attached to the Act , and this is how the term ‘ scheduling ’ was born . |
| 14 | The effect , however , turned out to be a somewhat elusive one in subsequent research , until the conditions under which it can be obtained were elucidated by Johnston and McClelland ( 1973 ) . |
| 15 | As explained in the introduction , the diagnostic groups , age groups , calendar periods , and areas to be analysed were agreed in advance of the analyses being carried out . |
| 16 | There is , however , no way of overcoming the objection that analyses of Seascale data for this period are not amenable to any rigorous statistical evaluation because the area , age group , and types of disease to be studied were selected as a result of the observed clustering of cases . |
| 17 | Five of the eight prisoners due to be released were convicted of terrorism and sentenced for life in the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964 . |
| 18 | No prices or details of the hardware environments that are supported were given by Versant . |
| 19 | Moreover , its existence was completely at odds with the national trend for community care , since patients who were referred were brought to a location quite remote from the area in which they had lived . |
| 20 | The 400 or 500 councils of action which were formed were ridden with dispute and inefficiency . |
| 21 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 22 | The fingers en route and for the purpose of being chilled were placed in a packet of ice lollies ! |
| 23 | Second , coordinators as a group were acutely conscious of the way their own success depended in large part upon how they and the practices they were promoting were regarded by existing staff in the schools where they were placed . |
| 24 | All the other decisions that were taken were bound to be opposed by the local community , the local youth and community staff and so on . |
| 25 | Three pieces which were submitted were commended by the panel , although not purchased . |
| 26 | What parts of the church that were finished were damaged by the Hussites . |
| 27 | Drugs and other agents being investigated were added to the Krebs solution before its entry into the baths . |
| 28 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 29 | The four men who were killed were sent on a murder mission . |
| 30 | The small number of new Elizabethan and Jacobean churches that were constructed were built in the Perpendicular style , and , in order to assert the continuity of medieval and Reformed churches , they retained the compartmentalized lay-out of the Gothic buildings . |