Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , both conceptions of the higher education enterprise were developed and indeed articulated within the framework of a set of wider philosophical values and meanings . |
| 2 | The hypochromicity factors ( F ) [ d(CGCAATCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGATTGCG) F = 0.7 ; d(CGCXXTCG) F = 0.8 ; d(CGXTTGCG) F = 0.7 ] were calculated as previously described ( 14 ) and used to calculate concentrations of the single strands using published ( 15 ) extinction coefficients of the nucleosides ( ε 260 d 3C A = 11.1 10 3 mol -1 lcm -1 ) . |
| 3 | If so , it was very successful , for the incensed Bishop of London reported the matter to Charles I , who had the offenders brought before the Court of High Commission , where they were reprimanded and heavily fined . |
| 4 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 5 | Sixty five years ago our continents were regarded as absolutely fixed . |
| 6 | Under the Communist regime , orphans were treated as mentally handicapped and given little help . |
| 7 | Except for these older men who owned or tenanted land , however , only two were recalled as independently retired , and both were middle-class businessmen . |
| 8 | In one of the experiments , a group of students were blindfolded and then taken on a coachride . |
| 9 | Other more drastic proposals were ventilated but never put into practice . |
| 10 | A further three wells were drilled and successfully tested to appraise the field — the last being completed in 1991 . |
| 11 | It was also commonly described by an interpretation of modern society as ‘ mass society ’ , in which such different elements as very large audiences , relative ‘ impersonality ’ of transmission or ‘ anonymity ’ of reception , and the ‘ unorganized heterogeneity ’ of ‘ democratic and commercial ’ societies were fused and indeed confused . |
| 12 | When the groups came together it was because in the fiction the Argonauts were landing and desperately needed food and shelter — which the younger children enormously enjoyed providing . |
| 13 | Refugee families in obvious distress were discouraged and often prevented from joining their relations and Asian friends in Britain by the Board 's refusal of all aid to them if they settled in areas with significant Asian populations . |
| 14 | Cars without stickers ( or four-plus occupants ) were reported and quickly fined . |
| 15 | With this diversity , extended distribution and mobility , came new forms and opportunities of artistic and cultural independence ; or , to put it more strictly , forms of direct dependence , within relatively monopolistic social and cultural reproduction , were modified and sometimes replaced by forms of more variable dependence on more diverse modes of such reproduction , and within this diversity there was some significant innovation . |
| 16 | Even in the Biblical record drugs were considered as inextricably linked with ( harmful ) spiritual power and as such were seen as susceptible to permanent cure . |
| 17 | Five of the seven ethnic groups that were relocated in this way were rehabilitated and partially repatriated to their native territories in 1956–7 . |
| 18 | These were eroded and eventually covered with the sea that deposited the limestone now lying above them . |
| 19 | But these were receding and soon ceased altogether , after a burst of three in rapid succession . |
| 20 | Women wore cosmetics that were caked and heavily coloured , so that painted faces largely obscured the natural complexion . |
| 21 | Many women of a previous generation , in which sex and reproduction were seen as inevitably linked , believed that sex stopped — or at all events should stop — with the " change of life " . |
| 22 | Demands from local groups for increased participation in the processes of decision making concerning housing and welfare were seen as politically inspired and met with hostility . |
| 23 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 24 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 25 | Five other items were prepared but never performed ( The Haunted Man ; The Bastille Prisoner ; Great Expectations ; Mrs Lirriper 's Lodgings ; The Signalman ) . |
| 26 | Single-cell suspensions of BALB/c EC were prepared as previously described , except that trypsin digestion was done in Hank 's balanced salt solution ( HBSS ) containing 1mM calcium ( Biofluids ) , 10mM HEPES ( GIBCO BRL ) . |
| 27 | The animals were sacrificed 60min later and optic nerve cell suspensions were prepared as previously described . |
| 28 | Assay for platelet activating factor — Washed rabbit platelets were prepared as previously described . |
| 29 | Nuclear extracts were prepared as previously described ( 29 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ So you jumped to the conclusion that the two episodes were connected and instantly assumed that the villain was me ! ’ |