Example sentences of "[vb pp] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 2 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 3 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 4 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 5 | Those included were in Dakar , Niamey , Yaoundé , Bamako , Fort-Lamy , Conakry , Abidjan , Lomé , Cotonou , Douala , St. Louis and Brazzaville . |
| 6 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 7 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 8 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 9 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 10 | The men he had suspected were in prison serving life sentences . |
| 11 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 12 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 13 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 14 | ‘ The best times I 've ever had were with my kids . |
| 15 | His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department . |
| 16 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 17 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 18 | What they did n't realise was that the places being offered were in the reception class — designed for children of five and over — not a nursery class . |
| 19 | Ten of the fields sampled were in the notorious Peldon area . |
| 20 | There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions . |
| 21 | In the second phase assets affected were worth 25,000 million forints ( as at March 23 , 1992 , US$1.00=89.5858 forints ; there had been 1.9 per cent devaluation on March 16 ) , three times as much as in the first phase . |
| 22 | Until development of this system it was difficult to do pattern matching if movements being compared were over varying time periods . |
| 23 | Results from analyses restricted to men younger than 50 at baseline whose history of smoking was known were in line with the preceding results . |
| 24 | No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers . |
| 25 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the man in charge of the murder inquiry , said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool . |
| 26 | A union spokesman said that none of the people arrested were from the sacked Timex workforce . |
| 27 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 28 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 . |
| 30 | ‘ The rings stolen were of great sentimental value to the female owner , included in the haul were wedding and engagement rings . ’ |