Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Places where specific industrial processes were developed are tourist attractions , as at Coalbrookdale . |
| 2 | The two dozen or so airframes which were completed were simply test- flown and put into storage , awaiting buyers who never came . |
| 3 | ‘ The bottles in which the samples were placed were not sealed properly according to IAAF rules , ’ said Mr Emig . |
| 4 | The area in which the traps were placed was totally protected from any outside agency except scavenging by other small mammals . |
| 5 | The reason that these were given was most probably for quick identification , for at this time most men worked on the cement factories where father and son and uncles worked together , some with the same Christian names and a nickname was necessary for a man to know who was needed . |
| 6 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 7 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 8 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 9 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 10 | The four whose life sentences were overturned were Valerio Fioravanti , his wife Francesca Mambro , Massimiliano Fachini , and Sergio Picciafuoco . |
| 11 | Some idea of how badly the police were treated is given by the reports of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner which show that roughly one-in-four of London 's policemen were assaulted each year — 3,444 cases were reported in 1899 , for example , when the constabulary strength was 13,213 men and 1,949 sergeants — as police authorities pressed for firmer measures in assault cases . |
| 12 | The somewhat cavalier way in which many of the internal streets were treated is illustrated by one which was found east of Bleachfield Street . |
| 13 | Staff at the Radcliffe Infirmary where Senad and Dino were treated are very pleased both men are well on the way to recovery . |
| 14 | Moreover , its existence was completely at odds with the national trend for community care , since patients who were referred were brought to a location quite remote from the area in which they had lived . |
| 15 | The 400 or 500 councils of action which were formed were ridden with dispute and inefficiency . |
| 16 | Because of the lack of a pervasive craft history , since Japan incorporated advanced mechanisation and new technologies at a comparatively early stage in its development , the unions which were formed were unable to make a sharp separation among job groups a basis for organisation . |
| 17 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 18 | when they were painted were n't it ? |
| 19 | Whether or not those complaints were justified is another matter ; enough that at the time I felt they were . |
| 20 | The last time they were altered was I think about nineteen seventy nine or nineteen eighty one . |
| 21 | Married women whose husbands were incapacitated were also treated sympathetically . |
| 22 | I also find an enduring quote from a friend of mine , a Pathfinder , who makes this comment : " The way all my crew were picked was a sheer gamble , I think , therefore , I was exceedingly lucky . " |
| 23 | It had been noted previously that certain phonological features characteristic of West Belfast where both Clonard and Andersonstown were located were also characteristic of the mid-Ulster dialect spoken in Lurgan ( as opposed to the Ulster-Scots dialect of Belfast 's northern and eastern hinterland ) . |
| 24 | Those which were dropped were not necessarily false . |
| 25 | However , when the squad was announced the only players that were dropped were Ian Snodin ( naturally ) and Tony Cottee ( who was being a scapegoat for the umpteenth time ) . |
| 26 | Responsibility for ensuring that children were educated was then , as now , placed on parents ' shoulders . |
| 27 | I see no ground for concluding that the omission of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ was inadvertent and not deliberate , and to read the subsection as if they were included is , in my opinion , wholly unwarranted . |
| 28 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 29 | It established no right to be consulted , was dominated by the nobility and clergy , and such leading merchants as were included were appointed rather than elected . |
| 30 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |