Example sentences of "were finally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plagued the then news editor of the Irish News , an Englishman called Redwood ( ‘ a bloody tyrant , but a fine journalist ’ ) for a job , and his entreaties were finally answered . |
| 2 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 3 | When the cars were finally stopped by police , Ozzie Griffiths thanked the police for pulling them over . |
| 4 | The teenagers were finally stopped near junction 14 of the M1 near Milton Keynes when a police landrover blocked their way . |
| 5 | When full details of the draw were finally dispatched it emerged that Readers Digest had a considerable involvement . |
| 6 | On 4 April 1991 , the very day the children were finally flown home to Orkney , the government announced it had commissioned an Inquiry to establish the extent — if any — of ritual sexual abuse of children . |
| 7 | The training packs were finally despatched in December and because they were based on information that had not yet been circulated , they served an information as well as training need . |
| 8 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 9 | In 891/1486 , when Bayezid II built his medrese in Amasya , he stipulated that the muftis of Amasya should act as muderris , a condition which is reported to have been observed without exception until 1033/1623–4 , and with a few exceptions until 1084/1673–4 when the two offices were finally separated . |
| 10 | Legislation on drugs , which had been passed by the Senate in December 1989 [ see p. 37508 ] , was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in May 1990 with only minor amendments , which were finally accepted by the Senate in June . |
| 11 | As an example , when Family Allowances were finally accepted by the Treasury it was partly to avoid the risk of wartime inflation through wage rises and the more expensive — and some would have said more efficacious — solution of a minimum wage . |
| 12 | But the verderers were finally acquitted , |
| 13 | These distinctive units were finally withdrawn in 1984 . |
| 14 | The concessions granted to the League since 1929 were finally withdrawn in 1937 when the League representative on the National Executive was dismissed . |
| 15 | In 1968 – 69 their fears were finally borne out . |
| 16 | They were finally completed yesterday . |
| 17 | These lines were finally converted in a single weekend , 21-22 May 1892 . |
| 18 | Two weeks after Driscoll 's father died , Bobby 's fingerprints were finally matched with the body found by the two kids . |
| 19 | Everything went remarkably smoothly , and the new buildings were finally declared open on 2nd September 1975 by Lt. Col. Christie-Miller . |
| 20 | Clones representing the complete coding sequence of p46 ( referred to as DP-1 ) were finally isolated from an F9 EC cDNA library . |
| 21 | Crocker 's pretentions to autonomy were finally squashed . |
| 22 | In 1916 Pierre Nizan 's efforts to gain full admission to the bourgeoisie were finally dashed . |
| 23 | A south entrance on Wharfedale Road was considered , with a main corridor along the longer north-south axis , but this would have sliced the building into two narrow segments , so entrance doors on Crinan Street to the west were finally adopted . |
| 24 | The effects of inflation , which had ‘ taken off ’ in the early 1970s , were finally recognised by an indexation allowance for inflation after 31 March 1982 . |
| 25 | Agreements were finally ratified in late 1989 with commercial banks for debt buy-backs , with the Paris Club ( representing the main official creditors ) to reschedule about one-third of its US$930 million debt , and with the World Bank for a structural adjustment loan . |
| 26 | When the Indian maid and the house-boy were finally called to remove it all , we were satiated . |
| 27 | The Mathematics department felt that their allocation was being eroded as other weightings increased , so they were finally given a weighting of 1.2 . |
| 28 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 29 | When you were finally given this flat in February this year , you must have been over the moon . |
| 30 | At eleven , three hours after they had been ordered to report , they were finally given instructions to board a train . |