Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 2 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 3 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 4 | The children were duly legitimized in a bull of August 1201 because the pope wanted the support of Philip Augustus . |
| 5 | In addition , the preamble to the Bill contained a false recital that plans of the lands and a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners , lessees and occupiers of the said land were duly deposited with the clerk of the county council . |
| 6 | As time passed , Elena too became the subject of such gestures of endorsement from the West which were duly recorded for the benefit of Romanians , lest they forget by just how an extraordinary couple they were ruled . |
| 7 | Prices of staple goods and fuel were duly increased by an average 19.5 per cent . |
| 8 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 10 | There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 11 | THE ‘ green ’ credentials of nuclear power as an alternative to ozone-depleting fossil fuels were overwhelmingly accepted after a debate in the Cambridge Union Engineering Society . |
| 12 | President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera suffered a severe setback to his privatization programme , a central plank of his free-market economic policy , when on Dec. 13 five laws providing for the sale of public companies were overwhelmingly rejected in a national referendum . |
| 13 | Consumer goods industries were the linchpin , and these were overwhelmingly located in the West Midlands and in and around Greater London . |
| 14 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 15 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 16 | They operated mainly as market centres for local areas and , as such , they were overwhelmingly dominated by the countryside , where wealth and power were concentrated . |
| 17 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 18 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 19 | Commissioned in 1914 and attached to the Royal Naval Air Service , he designed two rotary aero-engines , BR1 and BR2 , which were successfully fitted to the Sopwith Camel and Snipe respectively . |
| 20 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 22 | Gould , in marked contrast , had managed to enlist 298 subscribers for his Himalayan Birds , all of whom were successfully pursued by the efficient and persistent Mr Prince . |
| 23 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 24 | There charges of corruption were successfully brought against the vice-president , and in November 1629 his resignation from the office was forced . |
| 25 | But they were successfully resisted by a rejectionist front which encompassed a variety of social interests and philosophies , ranging from rural Tory gentry to urban working-class radicals . |
| 26 | In 106 of these patients ( 72.6% ) the stones were successfully retrieved by the standard technique of sphincterotomy and basket or balloon extraction . |
| 27 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 28 | In that debate they were powerfully assisted by the shock effects of the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and by the Soviet blockade of the Western zones in Berlin from the summer of 1948 . |
| 29 | In the half-century between 1787 and 1838 the overall organisational and institutional forms of antislavery were powerfully shaped by the need for meeting the propaganda and political challenge of the West India interest . |
| 30 | But now the whole team were keenly focused on the game . |