Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 4 | The Belfast methods , on the other hand , were developed primarily for the study of closeknit communities — and indeed it is likely that they are particularly and rather generally suitable for urban or rural communities of this type . |
| 5 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 6 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 7 | Many more houses were erected mainly by the cement firms themselves . |
| 8 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
| 9 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 10 | Following the ejection of Richard Baxter along with 2,000 or so of his fellow pastors in 1662 , these Nonconforming ministers were persecuted ruthlessly by the authorities . |
| 11 | His services were recognized both by the shah , who presented him with a sword , and by the governor-general , Lord Hastings ( Francis Rawden , later first Marquis of Hastings , q.v . ) . |
| 12 | The preliminary analyses of the survey were completed just after the discovery of the error and before corrections could be made . |
| 13 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 14 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 15 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 16 | In the West Sussex examples , at least , the villages themselves were placed firmly on the Greensand belt . |
| 17 | Scraps of paper looking like old bus tickets were placed neatly on the carpet . |
| 18 | A number of key portfolios were placed directly under the President 's supervision in the form of Ministries-delegate . |
| 19 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 20 | H 2 blockers ( ranitidine 150 mg or cimetidine 400 mg twice daily ) were given orally to every patient for at least two months at the outpatient department . |
| 21 | But express instructions were given yesterday excluding the press . |
| 22 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 23 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 24 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 25 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 26 | Shooting , explosions and mortar bombs were heard intermittently throughout the day , from scattered locations including the inner city , Fort Amador and San Miguelito . |
| 27 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 28 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 29 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 30 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |