Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No further items were traced referring to this case and so the confusion was allowed to remain . |
| 2 | Notions of ‘ political ideology ’ , and of an ‘ assumptive world ’ , were developed to account for their behaviour ( see respectively Dearlove , 1973 ; Young and Kramer , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 4 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 5 | Exports were calculated based on an exchange rate of 123.77 yen in February against 125.59 a year ago . |
| 6 | Standard deviation scores ( SDS ) for height at diagnosis and at ultimate follow up were calculated according to the equation : |
| 7 | The lifetime radon exposure were calculated according to BEIR IV . |
| 8 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 9 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 10 | Twice-weekly counselling sessions were arranged to deal with her glue sniffing . |
| 11 | By April the single Virgin Rose would be in flower and others were listed to bloom throughout the following five months . |
| 12 | We were bring led through the sacristy at school on our way to the chapel . |
| 13 | The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys . |
| 14 | The extent to which management powers over generation were devolved depended on the central triumvirate of Citrine , Self and Hacking , and not on a statutorily entrenched position . |
| 15 | That particular day 's sailings between England and Ireland were delayed owing to bad weather so the mail was accountably held up and delays caused . |
| 16 | What elevated Griffith above his fellow technicians was that his sense of what a camera should record and his appreciation that new dimensions of filmic space could be appropriated were given meaning by their constant reference to central themes of American life . |
| 17 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 18 | The footsteps which were heard passing in the alleyway were of men walking not running in panic . |
| 19 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 20 | Weeks later , when the mourning for her had already begun , chimpanzees were heard calling near the village . |
| 21 | Desmond Fairchild and Dotty Blundell were heard arguing in the corridor , though no one could be sure what was at issue . |
| 22 | Footsteps were heard coming up the steps , but no one ever appeared at the top of the steps . |
| 23 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 24 | In fact the husbands who said they were helping tended to be the ones who did the least . |
| 25 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 26 | The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 27 | All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 28 | The two positions were to remain merged in him until 1973 . |
| 29 | Equally , some heads were struggling to deal with colleagues who were challenging by any standards — individuals who were combative , touchy , recalcitrant , bitter , lazy or in any of a variety of other ways uncooperative . |
| 30 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |