Example sentences of "[vb pp] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as the problems being addressed were limited , the degree of acceptable organizational change was limited . |
| 2 | Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect ! |
| 3 | I was shattered were n't we , but we |
| 4 | Those which were dropped were not necessarily false . |
| 5 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 6 | Appeals by defence lawyers for the charges to be dropped were rejected by the prosecution , and federal judge Royce Lamberth , who had presided over the initial trial , set Oct. 19 as the date for George 's re-trial . |
| 7 | However , when the squad was announced the only players that were dropped were Ian Snodin ( naturally ) and Tony Cottee ( who was being a scapegoat for the umpteenth time ) . |
| 8 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 9 | The crimes which had been committed were manifestly the work of hardened professionals who had no more to do with the incestuous dramas of this city than Zen himself . |
| 10 | As widely scattered were over a hundred thousand prisoners of war or internees , who had to be tracked down , liberated , and succoured . |
| 11 | Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere . |
| 12 | He argued that Minton 's desire to describe outweighed his impulse to compose ; objects too literally reported were not sufficiently re-created . |
| 13 | Three measures not previously reported were also collected . |
| 14 | Patients or controls with a history of diseases in which hyposplenism has been reported were excluded ( coeliac disease , inflammatory bowel disease , thyrotoxicosis , rheumatoid arthritis and connective tissue diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus ) . |
| 15 | She was very genteel , softly spoken and , although poor , kept standards high — her gloves , although well mended were always beautifully white . |
| 16 | Previous studies have shown that only 2% ( 386/17000 ) of health care staff being vaccinated were naturally immune to hepatitis B , a figure lower than that found in our population — 5.5% ( 1186/21389 ) — indicating that perhaps most of those being vaccinated are either ‘ low risk staff ’ or new entrants to the profession . |
| 17 | Among the units most heavily attacked were the 120,000-strong Republican Guard formations — Iraq 's most effective troops — which were entrenched near the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 18 | The next five craft to be attacked were also generally attributed to Iraq . |
| 19 | This sort of first-hand evidence from the children reveals how utterly distorted were the verdicts of groups such as the National Federation of Women 's Institutes when , after citing highly selective and impressionistic reports from their local workers — which tended to repeat ad nauseam the ‘ fish and chips ’ allegations and held the evacuee mother up to ridicule — they concluded : |
| 20 | Well they were decorated were n't they , they were rings with and they had little tiny boxes , little coloured like little parcels sewn on . |
| 21 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 22 | The one indisputable fact these studies revealed is that the majority of those interviewed were not familiar with the extent of , or damage caused by , corporate crime and amongst the ‘ knowledgeable ’ minority , few were able to define it with any precision . |
| 23 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 24 | Some of the people I had interviewed were ridiculed , relegated to a position of insignificance , although one was their senior vice-president in New York . |
| 25 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 26 | Following a battery of aptitude tests , those who were fortunate enough to be interviewed were promised a full time position in Banking with career opportunities commensurate with their ability and commitment . |
| 27 | The standard of the candidates interviewed were all of a very high quality and the final choice was extremely difficult . |
| 28 | So varied were the locations — from Cornwall to Wales , from Somerset to Kent , that most could be discounted . |
| 29 | Among those who could not be trusted were colleagues even closer to home , right inside the NSC , who believed in presenting the President with ‘ ranges of options ’ for his policies in Iran or Central America . |
| 30 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |