Example sentences of "were [vb pp] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 32 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 33 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 34 | However , considerable variations in the structure of the first and second years of part-time training were envisaged and in particular in the availability of the second year . |
| 35 | At 49 all the curtains were drawn and at 51 Mrs Archer had left the front door open , perhaps in the hope that Mr Archer would return . |
| 36 | Her wrists were reset and to this day , two years later , she is still seeking compensation . |
| 37 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 38 | And I am convinced — or rather , I have been convinced — that this felicity is due to the influence of the place in which they were born and in which they have lived all their lives … ’ |
| 39 | At the beginning of the 20C the sides were raised and in 1950 the bridge was closed to road traffic . |
| 40 | Scores of businesses were damaged and at least 12 buildings may have to be demolished . |
| 41 | Scores of businesses were damaged and at least 12 buildings may have to be demolished . |
| 42 | For positive controls , sections containing rectal carcinoma and normal mucosa were employed and for negative controls the primary antibodies were excluded . |
| 43 | This represents a considerable reduction from the figure of 980 in the Sixties , when student conductors were employed and before the introduction of one-man operations on trams and buses . |
| 44 | Stone and clods and faggots were brought and by day , under murderous fire , were projected at three different points into the great ditch that surrounded the city . |
| 45 | They were divorced and in 1931 he married Irene Ruth Marden , daughter of Oliver Hawkshaw , gentleman of independent means . |
| 46 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 47 | There was an increase of 20 per cent in the number of cycles completed per unit time after reorganisation from the conventional to the composite longwall system ( a cycle being the three processes of preparation , getting , and advancing ) , though they do note that , at the same time , better conveyors were introduced and on one face there was a change from hewing the coal to cutting it ( Trist et al. 1963 , 256 ) . |
| 48 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 49 | Two vans were seized and at least five people arrested . |
| 50 | The words ‘ Hey , there ’ were underlined and across the top of the page he had written in bold capitals ENGLISH . |
| 51 | The surgical team were scrubbed and in Theatre ready , but Andrew Barrett , the paediatrician , was waiting for them as they pulled up . |
| 52 | Arms caches were found and on May 30 five army battalions were deployed ; eight people including three soldiers were reported killed . |
| 53 | After four hours of incubation with DMJ , no pre-Β chains were found and after a 12 hour incubation period , most of the Β 1 integrin complexes on the cel surface still contained the mature Β 1 chain but some the smaller pre-Β 1 chain ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 54 | I realized then that my days with the Scottish Liberal Party were numbered and with much sadness wrote out a letter of resignation . |
| 55 | In each case , PCR primers were chosen which gave products of identical size from both the cDNA from which they were derived and from genomic or YAC DNA . |
| 56 | The demonstration was attacked by the military , several women were arrested and at least two shot with rubber bullets . |
| 57 | Forecasts were reduced and by the year 2000 it was expected that 45pc of homes 9.5 million were likely to have a dish or cable TV — 800,000 fewer than first predicted . |
| 58 | The next day both he and his plane were gone and with hundreds of planes going over , the next morning D Day had begun . |
| 59 | Anyone wanting to buy a copy , only 100 were printed and of these twenty were sold on the day of publication . |
| 60 | I had for too long been conscious only of my own concerns , but now I became aware that those around me were troubled and at odds . |