Example sentences of "[verb] were [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other topics listed were all covered by a majority of courses . |
| 2 | The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro . |
| 3 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 4 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 5 | The dilutions used were those previously established as exhibiting the best ratio of staining to background . |
| 6 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 7 | That the rate of growth accelerated after 1945 is some measure of the impact of the Second World War ; but to the question of whether the institutional changes this embodied were enough to match the requirements of rapid economic growth , the answer is clearly no . |
| 8 | The standard of the candidates interviewed were all of a very high quality and the final choice was extremely difficult . |
| 9 | But after taking their patients to hospital , the six ambulancemen involved were all suspended without pay for refusing to work normally . |
| 10 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | But the procedures involved were more than attempts to improve the sensitivity of attitude measures ; they also involved no little reformulation of the theory of attitudes . |
| 12 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 13 | Significantly , the villages which tended to disappear were those with a low proportion of peasant proprietors ( 83 , p.28 ) . |
| 14 | This distance relation score measures the degree of attraction between a lemma and its collocates , by comparing the frequency of a collocate in the concordances with the frequency that would be expected were all words distributed in the text at random . |
| 15 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 16 | No planning permission was required since selling will be conducted for less than 28 days and notices erected were less than 1 metre high . |
| 17 | No planning permission was required since selling will be conducted for less than 28 days and notices erected were less than 1 metre high . |
| 18 | To return to characteristics of the sample : the forty women interviewed were all aged between twenty and thirty , were married , and the mothers of at least one child under five . |
| 19 | The first catfish added were some Corydoras — a trio of C. sterbae , a trio of C. haraldschultzi , and three C. adolfoi . |
| 20 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 21 | The amount of , intensity and direction of pushing were all wrong with the epidural . |
| 22 | Prisoners and wounded were few , most of those who had fallen or been disarmed being killed as they tried to surrender or lay helpless on the battlefield . |
| 23 | One factor in this difference is probably the attitude of the medical profession , since the other bowel complaints studied were all recognized conditions which are not dismissed as psychosomatic . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 25 | The important issues that he noted were these : |
| 26 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 27 | He was obviously very impressed by the WEA at its best , where courses mounted were those the voluntary members themselves had chosen and where high standards were sustained by tutors and students alike ; he saw the growth of university extra-mural work as a threat to all this . |
| 28 | I could do were both starving , I 've finished mine . |
| 29 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 30 | The Court could find no evidence that the parties intended to be liable on the contracts of the International Tin Council ; the obligations they envisaged were those they owed to the Council itself and not to third party creditors . |