Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were replenished each evening with barrels of muddy water brought from the lake on donkey carts . |
| 2 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 3 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 4 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 5 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 6 | Trips to Vienna were arranged this year to reward sales successes . |
| 7 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 8 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 9 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 10 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 11 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 12 | In Victoria Street Lytle 's and McCausland 's warehouses were completed two years before Ewart 's . |
| 13 | Seventeen were completed that year , all without rudder pedals . |
| 14 | Mel Hawley , chief executive , said the Nissan and Honda contracts in Britain were completed last year , and the Toyota paint shop would be finished by end 1992 . |
| 15 | Fish told me ; ‘ The studios were completed last July and the recording of ‘ Internal Exile ’ , my second solo album , began in the same month . |
| 16 | Nests were checked 2–6 times a week . |
| 17 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 18 | The 17 trucks were halted 25 miles short of the town of Tuzla while UN aides negotiated for a path to be cleared of mines . |
| 19 | At parties occasionally we will recall the full horror of the event in one of those conversations which goes something like : ‘ You were delayed six hours and then had to be diverted to a branch line 50 miles out of your way on a train that had no heating and no buffet . |
| 20 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 21 | To pursue the question put by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , the Secretary of State will be aware that the long lead orders for the four Trident submarines were placed some time ago and that construction is quite well advanced . |
| 22 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 23 | The Mites did a great deal of touring and were given outdoor clothing , often a hooded cloak , socks and shoes , even a suitcase each . |
| 24 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 25 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 26 | All patients were given 0.625 mg daily of oral conjugated oestrogen ( Premarin , Wyeth ) . |
| 27 | All patients were advised to achieve a daily intake of at least 700 mg of calcium ; five patients were unable to take sufficient dairy products to sustain this and were given oral calcium supplements . |
| 28 | Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds . |
| 29 | Most of the Act dealt with control , but local authorities were given wide powers to provide caravan sites . |
| 30 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |