Example sentences of "[verb] were [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm . |
| 2 | ‘ A pretty ’ manufacturing town , Dursley had several residents who look as though they operated the water trucking mills ; unusually for the area , more than half the fifty-two persons listed were rated at less than 40s. , some of them probably millhands , though others must have laboured in the stone quarry which caught Leland 's eye . |
| 3 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 4 | When the rewrites were presented by Codron and Wood , Ken was out of character again . |
| 5 | Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect ! |
| 6 | After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 . |
| 7 | Antibodies to HEV were detected with Diagnostic Biotechnology 's HEV ELISA ( supplied by Genelabs Technologies ) . |
| 8 | Antibodies to HEV were found in 80 ( 5.9% ) of 1350 subjects . |
| 9 | Appeals by defence lawyers for the charges to be dropped were rejected by the prosecution , and federal judge Royce Lamberth , who had presided over the initial trial , set Oct. 19 as the date for George 's re-trial . |
| 10 | Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere . |
| 11 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 12 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 13 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 14 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 15 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 16 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 17 | Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests . |
| 18 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 19 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 20 | Were erm only certain men allowed or er say were trusted with the job of stowing |
| 21 | The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 . |
| 22 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 23 | Berry , from Bramerton , Norfolk , was originally convicted in 1983 of making electronic timers for detonating bombs which it was claimed were intended for use in Syria and the Lebanon . |
| 24 | Altogether between 1250 and 1435 over sixteen thousand excommunicates were notified to chancery , and of these almost three thousand occur in the decade 1275–84 and another two thousand in the remaining years of the century . |
| 25 | At the same time food was becoming harder to find as the mammals and birds he might have caught were kept off the moors or in hibernation by the still unthawed snow which lay bleakly below him . |
| 26 | In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 . |
| 27 | Lords whose lands were included were bound by tenure to take part in the chase . |
| 28 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 29 | The fingers en route and for the purpose of being chilled were placed in a packet of ice lollies ! |
| 30 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |