Example sentences of "were [verb] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The somewhat cavalier way in which many of the internal streets were treated is illustrated by one which was found east of Bleachfield Street . |
| 3 | A good idea of how the great Norman towers looked when they were built is provided by the large , pilgrimage church at Southwell ( 296 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The historical pattern by which some theoretical concepts in geology were constructed is described by Rudwick in his masterly work on the introduction of the concept of the Devonian geological System in the nineteenth century . |