Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 2 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 3 | Although a few other animals were captured , no adults were successfully moved out of the danger area . |
| 4 | Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods . |
| 5 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 6 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The miners were eventually forced back to work — some might claim they were virtually ‘ starved back ’ by the operation of the social security benefit rules — because there was no apparent chance of success . |
| 10 | Despite a bright start , Liverpool were eventually shown up as a brittle , spiritless outfit whose heads dropped when the roll of the dice went against them . |
| 11 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 12 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 13 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 14 | The guests were eventually ushered out at about eleven forty-five . |
| 15 | Eisenhower 's feelings at the start of the Anglo-French action against Egypt were strikingly summed up in one notable outburst : I 've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things … |
| 16 | Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy . |
| 17 | As ‘ real polises ’ we were correctly distributed in space and our bodies were properly turned out with the symbols of order . |
| 18 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 19 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 20 | They were badly caught out by Wednesday night 's opinion poll results , which suggested the Tories were still in with a chance . |
| 21 | The feelings of many audio-visualists and other teachers were effectively summed up by Francis A. Cartier in 1964 . |
| 22 | They were mostly made up of their families . |
| 23 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 24 | We were most put out by the way they turned it down . ’ |
| 25 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 26 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 27 | Hangings were henceforth carried out behind prison walls ; the public spectacle which executions had provided came to an end . |
| 28 | The logic of such a development was that previous allegiances to Nizan were necessarily passed over in silence . |
| 29 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 30 | Inevitably many marine creatures became extinct when their habitats were literally squeezed out of existence . |