Example sentences of "[vb pp] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three measures not previously reported were also collected . |
| 2 | Married women whose husbands were incapacitated were also treated sympathetically . |
| 3 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 4 | Those polled were then asked to rank firms in their industry ( except , for businessmen , their own company ) by eight criteria : quality of management ; financial soundness ; quality of products and services ; ability to attract , develop and retain top talent ; value as a long-term investment ; capacity to innovate ; quality of marketing ; and community and environmental responsibility . |
| 5 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 6 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 7 | What was most disastrous about the educated response to American and British cinema was the way in which good movies or movies that had impressed were conveniently forgotten . |
| 8 | The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights . |
| 9 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 10 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 11 | Those animals not ransomed were usually sold cheaply to cultivators or butchers who knew full well the origins of the animal . |
| 12 | The paired hepatic and gall bladder bile samples thus collected were immediately transferred to the laboratory in sterile brown test tubes kept at 37°C . |
| 13 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 14 | For the NF from the late 1960s set the pattern for successful mobilisation based on anti-black/anti-immigrant appeals , which numerous commentators have said were explicitly copied by other extreme-right groupings in western Europe . |
| 15 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 16 | At the time that Friedman was airing his dissatisfaction with the Phillips curve , the complex econometric models of inflation which its discovery had spawned were still predicting inflation reasonably well . |
| 17 | What restrictions had been imposed were largely removed in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | And , further , ‘ the circumstances in which they came to be made were never reported by journalists . ’ |
| 19 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 20 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 21 | Having your cosy liaison disrupted was never going to go down easily , but think on the bright side — at least I 'm here to keep you company . |
| 22 | The comparison drawn between the company and the state in no way detracts from the contractual conception of the company , which we have seen was originally adopted to legitimate the vesting of broad discretion to manage the company in the hands of the directors . |
| 23 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 24 | However the League conference at which the decision was made was seriously divided . |
| 25 | The point that my hon. Friend has made was graphically illustrated by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , who is reported as having said that if Labour were to introduce its devolution plans he could not act as Secretary of State for Health for England and Wales . |
| 26 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 27 | Any fears or doubts she might have had were immediately swept away by his overwhelming joy and pleasure . |
| 28 | How much more practically , efficiently and profitably those reserves could be utilized and exploited if the raw materials and the areas in which they were located or lay buried were systematically explored , charted , surveyed , investigated and catalogued . |
| 29 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 30 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |