Example sentences of "were eventually [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 2 | Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment , not in prison . |
| 3 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 4 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 5 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 6 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 7 | Over a twenty-year production run nearly 1,700 were eventually built , and they have served reliably in 65 countries in every climate and on every continent ( including Antarctica ) . |
| 8 | From then on cylinders were usually made of iron , and much more powerful Newcomen engines were eventually built with cylinders up to 6 ft in diameter . |
| 9 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 10 | Dundee worked hard for and equaliser and were eventually rewarded mid-way through the second half when Paul Barnett ( Dundee Kingsway Circus ) found the back of the net . |
| 11 | And they were eventually rewarded for their endeavour and spirit with a cracking goal . |
| 12 | The Sultan 's writ was re-established throughout the Oman , except in the mountain fastnesses of the Djebel Akhdar , which were eventually cleared by the SAS in 1959 , while on their way back from Malaya for probable disbandment under the Sandys cuts ! |
| 13 | The way in which the privileged were eventually led , not only by writers like Loudon but also by some of the greatest Victorian novelists , to consider whether the houses of the poor were comfortable or not , together with the consequences of their interest , will be the theme of this chapter . |
| 14 | After scrambling along a series of dark and dusty corridors which were lit only by Apanage 's lantern and the feeble light of the moon fighting its way through filthy skylights , Cleo and Dauntless were eventually led into a spacious attic . |
| 15 | Of the 23 bids submitted , 10 were eventually funded , the projects themselves being very varied , and all Faculties of the University being represented . |
| 16 | Her prayers were eventually answered , but after the birth of her first longed-for child she had four more . |
| 17 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 18 | The dividing line between a fixed ‘ site ’ and a portable ‘ find ’ is often a narrow one : for example , the site of the ship Mary Rose was excavated over a period of several years , but when the remains of the ship itself were eventually raised , they were treated like any other waterlogged find , albeit on a much larger scale . |
| 19 | In any case although Acheson in his memoirs acknowledged the ‘ perceptive warning of an able colleague ’ and admitted that these fears were eventually borne out by events , at the time he decided nonetheless ‘ that having put our hand to the plough we would not look back ’ and added his own to what would be hundreds of similarly hopeful assessments . |
| 20 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 21 | Nineteen out of 20 claiming asylum were found to be ineligible when their claims were eventually examined . |
| 22 | With the prematurely balding Perthshire giant Alan Gilzean up-front and the craggy centre-half Ian Ure cementing their defence , Dundee annihilated the European Cup favourites , FC Cologne by 8–1 at home , then advanced to the semi-finals where they were eventually beaten by AC Milan . |
| 23 | They were eventually beaten , but only just , as the final score was one nothing . |
| 24 | Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards were eventually senetnced after being on the run in Mexico . |
| 25 | These mesons were eventually discovered in experiments with cosmic rays — energetic particles from outer space — in 1947 . |
| 26 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 27 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 28 | At first Mwangaza was sold only in Dar es Salaam , but sales were eventually extended to Tanga , the country 's second town . |
| 29 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 30 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |