Example sentences of "were [verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 2 | Some idea of how badly the police were treated is given by the reports of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner which show that roughly one-in-four of London 's policemen were assaulted each year — 3,444 cases were reported in 1899 , for example , when the constabulary strength was 13,213 men and 1,949 sergeants — as police authorities pressed for firmer measures in assault cases . |
| 3 | The somewhat cavalier way in which many of the internal streets were treated is illustrated by one which was found east of Bleachfield Street . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 400 or 500 councils of action which were formed were ridden with dispute and inefficiency . |
| 6 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 7 | A 30 minute equilibration period , during which the samples were discarded was followed by six hours of collection . |
| 8 | When it mis-classifies an instance , all the cells which were addressed are reset to a random value . |
| 9 | Hence the best lattice is referred to as Q100 ( the correct word was present among each of the candidates ) and the worst lattice used is Q50 ( only half of the words that were written are found in the lattice ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A good idea of how the great Norman towers looked when they were built is provided by the large , pilgrimage church at Southwell ( 296 ) . |
| 12 | The god said that the place where their house and stable were built was plagued with evil influences . |
| 13 | However , the government 's threat to withhold payment on contracts with European companies if sanctions were imposed was discounted by many firms which had already encountered long delays in payment . |
| 14 | The ploughed field they were passing was speckled with brilliant-green shoots . |
| 15 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 16 | The selection procedure the forty-six weekenders were undergoing was devised in 1980 to recognize talent , wherever it came from . |
| 17 | This action by the Social Work Department only served to compound the trauma the children were experiencing being removed from their homes and families at all . |
| 18 | Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler . |
| 19 | A UN helicopter attempting a reconnaissance mission to the area where the troops were seized was hit by Khmer Rouge gunfire on Dec. 2 . |
| 20 | But Suzy said there were all kinds of awards young people could get , particularly if what they were doing was connected with conservation — I was really surprised . |
| 21 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 22 | Examples of the transcribed tape for two of the subjects and the way in which they were scored are given in Appendix 1.3 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had been badly damaged when the Zionists had sent their commando squad with explosives to La Seine-sur-Mer , close to the French port of Toulon , to destroy the two reactors that were to have been shipped to Tuwaithah 48 hours later . |
| 25 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 26 | Gold , platinum and palladium were to have been mined at the remote site in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory . |
| 27 | Three pieces which were submitted were commended by the panel , although not purchased . |
| 28 | What parts of the church that were finished were damaged by the Hussites . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And such arguments as there were had been settled without recourse to the courts . |