Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 3 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 4 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 5 | These were lengthened selectively for a limited-stop service after ten new trailers were ordered for delivery in 1960 . |
| 6 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 7 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 8 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 9 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 10 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 11 | The Belfast methods , on the other hand , were developed primarily for the study of closeknit communities — and indeed it is likely that they are particularly and rather generally suitable for urban or rural communities of this type . |
| 12 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 13 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 14 | Long spines on the exterior of the shell were developed especially during the Carboniferous . |
| 15 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 16 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 17 | Many more houses were erected mainly by the cement firms themselves . |
| 18 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
| 20 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 21 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 22 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 23 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 24 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 25 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 26 | Following the ejection of Richard Baxter along with 2,000 or so of his fellow pastors in 1662 , these Nonconforming ministers were persecuted ruthlessly by the authorities . |
| 27 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 28 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 29 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 30 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |