Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debtor 's affidavit evidence is in sharp conflict : he was given no advice on whether he might be eligible for legal aid , Mr. O'Connell was aware of his dire financial circumstances , the costs implications of the course recommended were not discussed , and he did not receive the letter . |
| 2 | Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition . |
| 3 | The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal . |
| 4 | Among the top riders invited were world uphill champion Tim Gould , his team mate Fred Salmon , the men 's Raleigh team and team Raleigh lady professional Caroline Alexander . |
| 5 | The institutions involved were Eagle Star Investment Managers , Foreign & Colonial Ventures , Ivory & Sime Development Capital , NatWest Ventures and Rothschild Ventures . |
| 6 | The policies pursued were not always pleasing to Washington , and showed that the British could have a mind of their own . |
| 7 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | At the end of the year l9X1 it was found that actual production overhead costs amounted to £160,000 in cost centre X and £138,000 in cost centre Y. The total direct labour cost in cost centre X was £144,200 and the machine hours used were 18,000 in cost centre Y during the year . |
| 9 | The phrasing of the questions and the scales used were as in Study 1 . |
| 10 | The monoclonal antibodies against integrin chains used were anti-α 1 mAB TS2/7 ( T-Cell-Science ) , anti-α 2 mAB Gi9 ( Immunotech , Luminy , France ) , anti-α 3 mAB VM2 ( gift of VB Morhenn , Menlo Park , CA ) , anti-α 4 mAB P4G9 , anti-α 5 mAB P1D6 , and anti-α v mAB AMF7 ( Telios Inc , San Diego , CA ) , anti-α 6 mAB GOH3 ( donated by A Sonnenberg , Amsterdam , The Netherlands ) , anti-Β 1 mAB 4B4 ( Coulter Clone , Krefeld , Germany ) , anti-Β 2 mAB MHM23 ( Dako , Hamburg , Germany ) , anti-α 3 mAB SZ.21 ( Immunotech SA , Luminy , France ) , and anti-Β 4 mAB 3E1 ( Telios Inc , San Diego , CA ) . |
| 11 | Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered . |
| 12 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 13 | Other objects found were a purse and pottery and coffin nails . |
| 14 | Top of the four clubs involved were Preston , who earned 28 votes , followed by Tranmere with 25 , Wigan with 15 and Stockport County with 2 . |
| 15 | On the clay the woods visited were predominantly mature mixed deciduous or coppice , and often damp . |
| 16 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 17 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 18 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
| 19 | After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 . |
| 20 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 21 | The EMSA and the DNA probes used were performed exactly as described in [ 14 ] . |
| 22 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 23 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 24 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 25 | Than Shwe , the SLORC Vice-Chair , officially announced that the SLORC would not transfer power to the Assembly elected in May 1990 , on the grounds that the parties involved were " unfit to rule " . |
| 26 | In terms of the industrial relations context , the relationships found were not always those expected . |
| 27 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 28 | Harrison felt that the solutions used were too strong and suggested that the containers of irrigating fluid should be no more than three feet above the patient 's pelvis , in contrast to the ten feet that had been the norm . |
| 29 | The solutions used were 140 mmol/l NaCl ( solution I ) or a solution containing Na 140 , acetate 60 , propionate 40 , butyrate 20 , and chloride 20 mmol/l ( solution II ) . |
| 30 | Other characteristics mentioned were : |