Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] were [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 2 | The day from which the Romans calculated and the day to be designated were both included , for example , 2 January was designated ante diem IV Non . |
| 3 | This distance relation score measures the degree of attraction between a lemma and its collocates , by comparing the frequency of a collocate in the concordances with the frequency that would be expected were all words distributed in the text at random . |
| 4 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 5 | The schools from which the sample was to be drawn were those which had submitted reports , or were scheduled to do so , between the autumn of 1981 and the summer of 1985 . |
| 6 | The 49 ferrets to be reintroduced were all about four months old , which is the age when ferrets disperse in the wild . |
| 7 | Among the ministries to be abolished were those of trade and industry , corresponding to the transition from a command-administrative system , in which these ministries had directed supplies and production , to a market-led economy . |
| 8 | The Tropical Plants experts as the team was to be called were all seen tending the plants throughout the shopping centre . |
| 9 | These instructions determine the citation order of the various concepts represented by the Schedules and the Tables and remove the need for facet indicators such as would be required were more flexibility of citation order permitted . |