Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a dispersed distribution of industrial estates within the county ( Shaw and Williams 1982b ) , which were developed and managed by a number of organizations including the Industrial Estates Corporation , the county and district councils and commercial establishments . |
| 2 | Fortunately methods of antenatal diagnosis were developed and introduced in the 1980s , allowing parents to be offered termination of the abnormal fetus . |
| 3 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 4 | By arrangement with the LMS Railway Company and the Buckinghamshire County Council , new laboratories were erected and equipped for the teaching of electrical engineering and allied subjects . |
| 5 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 6 | At the time of writing there has been little feedback from the trial period earlier this year during which forms CT 200 were completed and submitted alongside the usual accounts and computations . |
| 7 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 8 | For their part artists were experimenting and drawing on the insights provided by the colour theorists . |
| 9 | THREE men have admitted the carjack execution of two pals who were stripped and shot in the head . |
| 10 | The dead snakes were crushed and suffocated by the sheer weight of their fellows . |
| 11 | In Kendal the Duke of Perth 's horsemen were stoned and attacked by a mob armed with clubs , and as they approached Clifton on the outskirts of Penrith they came under fire from militiamen hidden behind the hedgerows . |
| 12 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 13 | The appeals were heard and rejected by the same appeal committee on the same day . |
| 14 | Most of his treasures were catalogued and stored by the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt ( national heritage ministry ) and were partly recovered after the war . |
| 15 | The following modules appeared in the 1990/91 National Certificate Catalogue and were revised and replaced in the 1991/92 Catalogue . |
| 16 | Though it was shot on a strict schedule , not in the looser manner of its two predecessors , some scenes and lines were improvised or contributed by the actors ; for instance , Rhodes 's last words to the zombies as they eat his guts , ‘ Choke on ‘ em ! ’ |
| 17 | But the men were blinded and confused by the snowstorm . |
| 18 | Reports and recommendations were received and considered from the Chemical Consultancy Forum , the Pharmaceutical Forum , the Water Chemistry Forum , RSC/APA Joint Standing Committee , Ethical Practices Committee , Law and Parliamentary Committee , Registration Development Committee , Employment Committee and the Working Party for Professional Symposia . |
| 19 | Over 1200 biochemistry and haematology specimens were examined and reported in an eight day period in the laboratory of the Gilbert Bain Hospital , Lerwick . |
| 20 | Of those initially seen by the general practitioner , 184 ( 11% ) were referred and admitted to hospital , 8 ( <1% ) were referred and discharged by an accident and emergency department , and 1546 ( 89% ) were managed solely by the general practitioner ( table II ) . |
| 21 | They were singing and clapping to the rhythm . |
| 22 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 23 | They were stopped and arrested in a brief operation involving thirty police . |
| 24 | Labour has condemned Government plans to cut benefits for young , single mothers after details of plans were leaked and published in a newspaper . |
| 25 | It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime . |
| 26 | The finishing-off jobs were taking longer than even I thought , but gradually both houses were furnished and fitted to a standard I wished I had met myself in holiday homes . |
| 27 | The debris scores were totalled and divided by the number of surfaces scored to obtain the debris index . |
| 28 | Previously existing fascist groups , which had been oriented towards Italy , were bullied or out-organized by the BUF which followed German Nazi example in becoming increasingly anti-Semitic . |
| 29 | THREE UNARMED British rubber plantation owners were attacked and murdered by a group of Chinese bandits at Sungei Siput , Malaya , on June 16 , 1948 . |
| 30 | a number of research programmes were instituted and co–ordinated by the Department of the Environment . |