Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not understand why our pigs were criticized for being too fat because the meat was so sweet and tender , almost like chicken . |
| 2 | More seriously , the proposed authorities were criticized for being too large and too remote . |
| 3 | Whereas the men , the men were taught to be more tidy erm although let me say this that er if you asked Jimmy who was an old established fitter in Brothers , where you would find a certain item , you know , in the fitting department , er he could go and get it , erm but er when the new system was invoked er everybody knew that they were stored either you know to the north of the department or to the south or whatever . |
| 4 | He also found that on their face , the memoranda were intended to be immediately effective documents . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there is the ideological and institutional inheritance of feudalism : the assemblies of privileged estates , usually aristocracy , clergy , and commons , which had developed within feudal societies and were intended to be roughly representative of wider social constituencies or groupings . |
| 6 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 7 | When children were expected to be unquestioningly compliant , parents would suppress undesirable behaviour without discussing the whys and wherefores of their prohibitions . |
| 8 | Although the report acknowledged that the Gulf crisis had adversely affected the economies of individual countries , most notably those of Jordan , Turkey , Romania , India and Yugoslavia , its effects on world trade were expected to be relatively small . |
| 9 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 10 | The risks involved in displeasing the company were deemed to be too great . |
| 11 | These arguments have been used to justify the continued operation of branch railway lines and low productivity coal pits , where the costs of closure to the local economy were deemed to be too high , even if the operations themselves were unviable . |
| 12 | Thrifts were banned by law from investing in equities which were deemed to be too risky . |
| 13 | It is perhaps a reflection of the overall picture in academic libraries that their rates of use were deemed to be quite good . |
| 14 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 15 | GCE O level and CSE were designed to be wholly different kinds of examinations . |
| 16 | Outdoor relief was removed , and the indsigent were consigned to workhouses which were designed to be punitively unattractive . |
| 17 | Some regions of Russia , however , were reported to be unilaterally withholding deliveries . |
| 18 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |
| 19 | Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food . |
| 20 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Factors were considered to be clinically relevant if , alone or in combination with another risk factor , they were associated with an increased odds ratio ( lower 95% confidence limit greater than 1.00 ) at more than two time points . |
| 22 | Thus , smoking , an ulcer diameter greater than 15 mm , prior slow healing , multiple ulcers , and prior complications were considered to be clinically relevant risk factors for slow healing since , alone or in combination with another risk factor , they were associated with decreased healing rates at two or more of the two , four , and eight week assessment points . |
| 23 | In the present study , five risk factors were considered to be clinically relevant because they were associated , at a minimum of two assessment points , with a decreased healing rate . |
| 24 | As the waters were considered to be particularly efficacious in spring , the first Sunday in May became known around the Calder Valley as Spaw Sunday . |
| 25 | p Values of below 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant . |
| 26 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 27 | It appears that changes in the card catalogues were considered to be too difficult and costly to implement . |
| 28 | They were interested , but their fees were considered to be too high . |
| 29 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 30 | It appears that many bus services were considered to be relatively marginal in cost terms even during years of peak usage in the 1930s and early 1950s . |