Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were aroused late that night by the most terrible screams and a pounding on the door . |
| 2 | The flaws were pointed out last year in a report by W.S. Atkins consultants , commissioned by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) . |
| 3 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 4 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
| 5 | In 1992/93 each single person was , for example , given an allowance of 3,445 ; married couples were given an additional allowance of 1,720 over and above the single allowance and pensioners were given even higher allowances . |
| 6 | And as if that was n't difficult enough , they were given just six hours to put together the entire production . |
| 7 | Enterprises were given just three hours from the start of business on Jan. 23 to hand over such notes from their cash floats to banks . |
| 8 | They were given immensely long platforms , like their military counterparts , some of the longest in the world , and huge circulation areas to cope with the great press of travellers at significant pilgrimage periods . |
| 9 | Rooms at the Skein of Geese were given infuriatingly anserine names rather than mere utilitarian numbers . |
| 10 | The arguments about just quarrels with our ancient enemy , the French , were given yet another outing ; commissioners were appointed in May 1546 and armed with instructions similar to the previous set . |
| 11 | On 24 May they were given yet another destination — Hazenbrouck , in the S-W corner of the semi-circle round Dunkirk where the 1st Bucks were to make their last stand . |
| 12 | Edis and Brabazon have suggested that parental involvement would be improved if parents were given more extensive rights . |
| 13 | Municipal reform came later in Ireland than in either England or Scotland ; and when the Act was passed in 1840 , the new councils were given more restricted powers ( Roche 1982:33 — 4 ) . |
| 14 | Significant passages of the speech , particularly on interest rates , were received in silence and other keynote statements were given only polite applause . |
| 15 | In 1978 the Primary Survey compiled by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate criticised teachers because children were given too little autonomy . |
| 16 | Doubtless these were given too little weight because it was reasonable to expect that tidal forces of the Sun had given Mercury synchronous rotation . |
| 17 | Torquay were given too much space and too much time and striker Adrian Foster made the most of it . |
| 18 | Children nowadays were given too much pocket money . |
| 19 | er we were given very little opportunity to raise anything with Mr |
| 20 | Four stimuli were used : two of these were given very different labels , thus approximating to the A and B stimuli of Fig. 5.3 . |
| 21 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
| 22 | A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone . |
| 23 | In addition , three island authorities were given virtually all-purpose status . |
| 24 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 25 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 26 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 27 | In experiments to study the mechanism of 5HT induced alterations of ileocolonic function , atropine and several 5HT receptor subtype antagonists were given intraperitoneally 60 minutes before the laparotomy ; these were atropine suphate ( 0.14 mmol/kg , Elkins-Sinn , Cherry Hill , NJ ) ; methylsergide ( 2.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 1 and 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Sandoz Research Institute , East Hanover , NJ , USA ) ; ketanserin ( 1.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc , Beerse , Belgium ) ; R-zacopride ( 2.5 mmol/kg , a selective 5HT 3 antagonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) , and SC53116 ( 2.4 mmol/kg , a 5HT 4 agonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) . |
| 28 | So both men were given almost equal prominence and Le Barre virtually killed off any audience interest with a heavy speech . |
| 29 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 30 | They were formed over fifty centuries ago by the Phoenix King Caledor the first at the start of the schism between the High Elves and the Dark Elves . |