Example sentences of "[verb] were [vb pp] " 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 | Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm . |
| 3 | ‘ A pretty ’ manufacturing town , Dursley had several residents who look as though they operated the water trucking mills ; unusually for the area , more than half the fifty-two persons listed were rated at less than 40s. , some of them probably millhands , though others must have laboured in the stone quarry which caught Leland 's eye . |
| 4 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 5 | When the rewrites were presented by Codron and Wood , Ken was out of character again . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Proposals that wages should be linked directly to age were put forward by labour unions in the later 1940s as a way of establishing a wage profile that reflected the increasing levels of housing or educational spending , but the slope of the female wage profile shows that the age/wage connection may not be universal . |
| 9 | The staff at Usher were advised to leave the danger zone . |
| 10 | In opinion polls last year , 55% of Italians supported the treaty ; that was 85% if the don't-knows were excluded , the highest level of approval in Europe ( see table ) . |
| 11 | Antibodies to HEV were detected with Diagnostic Biotechnology 's HEV ELISA ( supplied by Genelabs Technologies ) . |
| 12 | Antibodies to HEV were found in 80 ( 5.9% ) of 1350 subjects . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere . |
| 16 | For this study , when tests of mothers ' serum were the basis for referral the type of tests used were ascertained . |
| 17 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 19 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 20 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 21 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 22 | In one large-scale study , the secondary mathematics project ‘ CSMS ’ ( Hart , 1981 ) , extensive interviewing was carried out on a range of mathematical topics , and the strategies that pupils used were identified . |
| 23 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 24 | The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation . |
| 25 | The EMSA and the DNA probes used were performed exactly as described in [ 14 ] . |
| 26 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 27 | Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests . |
| 28 | From 1824 to 1839 , he was in charge of a penal colony on Moreton Bay , Queensland , and when the colony was made a free settlement in 1842 , the town and river on which it stands were called Brisbane in his honour . |
| 29 | Those too drunk to stand were dragged away to their tents and caravans . |
| 30 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |