Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , the implied qualifying words were agreed to be something like ‘ having regard to the position held or the work done ’ , it is submitted that such a qualification would be quite appropriate . |
| 2 | No words were found to be allowable in these positions , so instead the top-ranked string is stored . |
| 3 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 4 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 5 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 6 | Acorns and horse chestnuts were collected to be used in the making of munitions and several old pupils , on leave from the front , visited the school . |
| 7 | Of course in conformity with ecclesiological principles , schools were expected to be in the Gothic style . |
| 8 | The way of life argument was often used against closure since schools were held to be an important aspect of local life since the loss of the teacher and the school building seemed like a sentence of death for the community . |
| 9 | These were analogous to the special migrant stations in the United States and Russia with the exception that most of the Tamils were expected to be only temporary migrants . |
| 10 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 11 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 12 | In the first district ( A ) all services provided by its own units were deemed to be " core " by the DGM and were to be supplied within the district " come hell or high water " . |
| 13 | In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) . |
| 14 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 15 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 16 | Kids were reckoned to be more sophisticated , these days . |
| 17 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 18 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 19 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 20 | On the other hand , utilities were found to be insensitive to both unanticipated inflation and the unanticipated changes in the expected real long-term rate of growth of sales because this sector is highly regulated . |
| 21 | Valuable though such concessions were felt to be in the short term , we concluded it was wrong to encourage prospecting in sensitive waters without an adequate understanding of the nature and level of the risks involved . |
| 22 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 23 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 24 | By the end of the war , the bodies of these cars were found to be very worn and loose . |
| 25 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |
| 26 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 27 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 28 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 29 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 30 | A general election was held in May 1987 , in which all candidates were required to be members of the Malawi Congress Party , although voters had a choice of candidate in 69 constituencies . |