Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new advanced economic policies of the Lloyd George Liberals , which emerged in the late 1920s , were developed too late to arrest or reverse the Liberal decline . |
| 2 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rooms at the Skein of Geese were given infuriatingly anserine names rather than mere utilitarian numbers . |
| 6 | Until now British TV licences were given away free , mostly to firms headed by establishment figures . |
| 7 | They were given away free . |
| 8 | Edis and Brabazon have suggested that parental involvement would be improved if parents were given more extensive rights . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Significant passages of the speech , particularly on interest rates , were received in silence and other keynote statements were given only polite applause . |
| 11 | If sellers were given too generous a price , it would reduce the value of the trust for those still holding units . |
| 12 | Four stimuli were used : two of these were given very different labels , thus approximating to the A and B stimuli of Fig. 5.3 . |
| 13 | The refusal did include policy reasons , but the fundamental aspect was those other problems which were given very considerable investigation . |
| 14 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |
| 15 | The subject working groups were given very detailed ‘ guidance ’ . |
| 16 | In addition , three island authorities were given virtually all-purpose status . |
| 17 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Six capsules of each treatment were given twice daily for 16 weeks . |
| 20 | So both men were given almost equal prominence and Le Barre virtually killed off any audience interest with a heavy speech . |
| 21 | Although there was an unclean caste , the Rodi , whose members were regarded not unlike Indian ‘ untouchables ’ , it was very small , accounting for well under one per cent of the population . |
| 22 | The bank machines were situated too high in the wall , so are not easily operated from a wheelchair ( many of the instructions were not visible ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Their lines were formed so thick and deep , ’ observed one eyewitness in Cumberland 's army , ‘ that the grapeshot made open lanes quite through them , the men dropping down by wholesale . ’ |
| 24 | I mean I always thought if you were parked too close to it , they take your number and next thing you know , you get a , a , a summons come through the post . |
| 25 | If the line were deleted then subsequent roles would all adopt the wrong names . |
| 26 | The largest category , about a third , was libraries of educational institutions , ranging from Oxford and Cambridge colleges down to ‘ amalgamated ’ teacher-training colleges whose ‘ old-fashioned ’ libraries were deemed mostly redundant in the face of new teaching theories . |
| 27 | If even this measure were deemed politically unacceptable , then by maintaining the £30,000 limit over time , the real value of the relief would , of course , decline . |
| 28 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 29 | As most of the original windows were located quite high in the side elevations of the chapel , they could become low-level windows lighting the new upper storey , and space enough remained in the formerly imperforate lower-level panels of the side walls to introduce new ‘ tripartite ’ windows sited vertically below the original openings in order to light the rooms of the lower storey . |
| 30 | Solid silver is extremely heavy , so these were carried on ceremonial occasions by huge men from a special clan on the Indian side of the border . |