Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Field meetings and other services were arranged and were well attended . |
| 2 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 3 | Ultra pure gases were used and were further purified prior to entry into the chromatograph using the following filters ; oxyfilter , moisture filter and charcoal filter ×2 ( Chrompack , London , UK ) . |
| 4 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 5 | The claims of increased activity were disputed but were apparently confirmed by the absence of those traditional indicators of NHS inactivity — hospital beds temporarily closed as a year end cost saving exercise . |
| 6 | They could not enter the church , were excommunicated and were never to eat meat . |
| 7 | In 1976 , thirty-six boxes were returned and are now kept in a strongroom in the archbishop 's palace at Padua . |
| 8 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 9 | After the talks Kaifu said on March 3 that he would make " maximum efforts " to accelerate the structural reform of the Japanese economy in such a way as to improve market access for foreign traders while also improving the quality of life for Japanese consumers — a phrasing which was regarded as being carefully chosen so as not to imply unconditional concessions to the United States . |
| 10 | I suspect the King was surrounded and was lightly wounded by arrows . |
| 11 | The team was only set up 3 years ago when the rink was built and is now ranked 13th in the country . |
| 12 | It was threatened with closure after the demise of the lead-workings , but was saved and is now operated as a tourist service in summer months by British Rail — the only steam line left in the nationalized network . |
| 13 | Following a meeting of the National Examinations Board of Embalmers on 19th October 1990 , which was attended by representatives from the National Education Committee and Tutors Guild , a report was produced and was also published in The Embalmer . |
| 14 | Clarke v. Clarke [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 115 , was an appeal from a county court , in which Form N79 as served on the contemnor contained no particulars of the findings upon which the committal was based and was only served on the contemnor 13 days after his committal . |
| 15 | This continued until a drop-off in the number of pedestrians was found and was then recorded on a graph and in a table . |
| 16 | In one post the English applicant was shortlisted and was subsequently withdrawn — after which the Asian applicant was shortlisted . |
| 17 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 18 | Our Minister Mr. Robinson entred as a subscriber three years past and one man was sent and was soon sent back uncucarable which year was as I understand settled and a Declaration was sent to Declair off … |