Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area in which the traps were placed was totally protected from any outside agency except scavenging by other small mammals . |
| 2 | Married women whose husbands were incapacitated were also treated sympathetically . |
| 3 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 4 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 5 | The sequence in which these test solutions were used was randomly varied . |
| 6 | Very much a rubber stamp exercise in those days and as a result of that only one in four of the businesses that were supported was actually surviving at the end of the first twelve months . |
| 7 | To revert to the afflicted generations referred to earlier , the intolerance with petulance and ill-temper to which they were subjected was often perpetuated by non-commissioned officers in Her Majesty 's Services who , in their own inimitable way , took things a step or two further . |
| 8 | The difficulty for the historian is that evidence for how councillors were elected is often lacking , and one does not know how many freemen could participate in choosing them , nor when membership of councils came to be filled by the choice of the existing councillors . |
| 9 | The area where Julie and Elizabeth were killed is sparsely populated and most of the Zulu inhabitants live off the land or do odd jobs . |