Example sentences of "[was/were] [be] treated " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Le Pen launched a tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his MEPs were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 2 | Mr Le Pen launched his own tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his party members were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 3 | He had complained about the way a mother and her child were being treated at Harmondsworth . |
| 4 | The Bishop of Durham , the Right Rev David Jenkins , asked why good , caring and conscientious priests opposed to ordination of women should trouble collective consciences more than the women excluded from the ministry , who were being treated ‘ more and more as pawns in a political game ’ . |
| 5 | For them , the use of the term ‘ British ’ as a synonym for ‘ English ’ is an insult , a fact that English Conservatives sometimes overlook : introducing the poll tax a year early in Scotland was probably the worst blow to British unity in recent years , for it made the Scots feel they were being treated like second-class citizens . |
| 6 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 7 | Reg Seekings felt that they were being treated like condemned men going to the gallows , but he did manage to buy a tin of Craven A cigarettes . |
| 8 | In the routine maintenance revenue account the resurfacing of Beech Hill and the construction of a footpath were being treated as priorities . |
| 9 | They complained and asked why they were being treated differently from other couples . |
| 10 | Westminster Hospital confirmed to-day that three casualties had been admitted and were being treated . |
| 11 | On NoS they were being treated to the miracle of new technology , bypassing the National Graphical Association compositors who , before the age of ‘ direct entry ’ computers , retyped the articles on Linotype hot metal machines after the subs had marked them up in pencil . |
| 12 | The reports said two other women were being treated for gunshot wounds . |
| 13 | Reagan 's low-key , laid-back , non-specific approach clearly went down well with legislators who , for once , could feel they were being treated as genuine co-partners in the policy-making process . |
| 14 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 15 | Any rational person would disapprove of Moustaine , Auriega and the way in which we were being treated . |
| 16 | Now that we were being treated as human beings , rather than sorry creatures penned up in a basement , we could relax a bit , which gave us a chance to replenish our flagging energies . |
| 17 | When the patients were examined by treatment group 17 ( 10% ) patients in general practice were taking insulin , 105 ( 61% ) were taking oral hypoglycaemics , and 49 ( 29% ) were being treated by diet alone . |
| 18 | I do not agree with Stella Lowry that ‘ special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens . ’ |
| 19 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 20 | Our survey suggested that , in the three districts studied , people on section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and those who were being discharged after at least six months in hospital were almost always included on care programmes , but for people being discharged from hospital after briefer admissions , for those who were being treated outside hospital and for elderly people with both functional and organic disorders , the decision to formulate a care programme was determined by particular considerations . |
| 21 | more patients than were being treated a year ago ? |
| 22 | Many of their customers were being treated for diseases directly caused by their habit . |
| 23 | They claimed that they were being treated like Gypsies or Albanians , which according to them was unacceptable . |
| 24 | He said that both Chatichai and Arthit were being treated with respect and would be kept in custody for the minimum length of time . |
| 25 | Red Cross workers were banned from the military hospital where the wounded were being treated until interrogations were completed ; on Nov. 24 they were permitted to speak to the 89 wounded , but a request for private interviews with 47 other detainees was refused . |
| 26 | Fires on March 8 and 10 , at the homes of the parliamentary Speaker Casford Murray and former high commissioner to the United Kingdom Ron Saunders , were being treated in police inquiries as arson . |
| 27 | Since at least 17% of hypertensives were newly discovered , at least 46% of confirmed cases were being treated insufficiently . |
| 28 | By early February there were reports of large numbers of dead shellfish on beaches , an increasing number of seals were being treated for internal problems caused by oil poisoning , and a quarter of the economically important salmon-farming industry appeared to be affected by the spill . |
| 29 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 30 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |