Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Requirements concerning the degree of processing or working were made more flexible by doubling the tolerance of non-originating components to 10 per cent , abolishing the double threshold rule for some products and lowering the percentage of added value required for others , and reducing the threshold for obtaining derogations ( that is , waiving of the rules-of-origin requirements ) from 60 per cent to 45 per cent of local added value in finished products . |
| 2 | Routine household chores like washing cleaning cooking sewing and mending were often done by women and girls employed as resident domestic servants . |
| 3 | Would n't both sexes miss it , if flirting were outlawed ? |
| 4 | Furthermore , a pure hedge is almost impossible to achieve , so even if hedging were the main motive for acquiring a derivative asset , the transaction would almost invariably involve an element of speculation . |
| 5 | At 14 days all patients were reassessed , and if improving were assigned to treatment option A : prednisolone 20 mg daily for week three and 10 mg daily for week four . |
| 6 | ‘ all babies have the right to be fed and cared for , except where there is an incurable deformity and where the baby would suffer pain and distress if feeding were attempted . ’ |
| 7 | His dismal forebodings of being continually disturbed by knocks on the door requiring information and complaining were not realized . |
| 8 | If taking were to be kept as the basis of the offence , it would be necessary to create a separate offence of dishonest retention or disposal in order to deal with these cases . |
| 9 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 10 | Her days of swooning and sighing were over . |
| 11 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 12 | For these reasons Magharba and Zuwaya who were not tribally minded stayed away : voters who regarded themselves as modernizing were silent , and the turn-out was somewhat lower than would otherwise have been the case . |