Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Newall had been staging a partial hunger strike — refusing all solid food — in protest at what his lawyer claimed were ‘ inhuman ’ conditions . |
| 4 | The Heparin Aspirin Reperfusion Trial ( HART ) directly compared tPA plus early intravenous heparin with tPA and 80 mg aspirin by mouth ; coronary patency rates 7–24 h after therapy started were higher in the heparin than the aspirin group ( 82 vs 52% , p < 0.0001 ) . |
| 5 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 6 | The main stock kept were dairy cows and pigs . |
| 7 | Roots and branches speak of plant-life and of the gods which anthropology stressed were totemically associated with it . |
| 8 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 9 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 10 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 11 | To take an extreme example , if all the additional income received were withdrawn from the circular flow of income , the multiplier would be equal to l and the final rise in income would be just equal to the initial rise in spending and no more . |
| 12 | Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability . |
| 13 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 14 | Suddenly the senior courtiers who had sniffily averted their eyes when the Princess approached were forced to treat her with more respect . |
| 15 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 16 | The timing of debates which took place in the House of Commons on proposals which the European Legislation Committee advised were legally or politically important was dependent on the Government . |
| 17 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 18 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 19 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 20 | For Caroline Spry the most important things that the grant-aided sector offered were the opportunities to learn , to experiment and , if necessary , to fail . |
| 21 | a minority , they were covered with felt rather than ash felt were they not ? |
| 22 | And at the heart of that operation was a crackdown on outsiders the Minogue machine felt were unfairly cashing in on her success . |
| 23 | Thus during the worst crisis in British industrial history neither the labour movement nor its radical Left were able to take advantage of the situation . |
| 24 | Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging . |
| 25 | The Algerian ambassador to Iran was recalled on Jan. 18 , following what the Algerian Foreign Ministry claimed were unacceptable attacks by the official Iranian media which could harm " the sovereignty and unity " of the Algerian people . |
| 26 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 27 | Among several comments and recommendations that this body made were : |
| 28 | I was still shaking , so I could n't tell if the vibrations the body made were its or mine . |
| 29 | For many , the drug was a catalyst , but the changes that acid produced were shaped by wider influences . |
| 30 | He added that two of the Mayo family which his team found were wearing ‘ bendy boots ’ and there was only one ice axe between them , even though they had strayed on to a climbing route . |