Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 32 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 33 | Remarkably , they were given back by the owner without payment . |
| 34 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 35 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 36 | H 2 blockers ( ranitidine 150 mg or cimetidine 400 mg twice daily ) were given orally to every patient for at least two months at the outpatient department . |
| 37 | But express instructions were given yesterday excluding the press . |
| 38 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 39 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 40 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 41 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 42 | Shooting , explosions and mortar bombs were heard intermittently throughout the day , from scattered locations including the inner city , Fort Amador and San Miguelito . |
| 43 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 44 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 45 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 46 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 47 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 48 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |
| 49 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 50 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 51 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 52 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 53 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 54 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 55 | Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room . |
| 56 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 57 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 58 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 59 | The principal proposals of the Discussion Paper were received favourably by the majority of respondents : these proposals have therefore been retained in this FRED . |
| 60 | No reports were received either from the Air Rifle Club or the Youth Club . |