Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its somewhat irregular shape and measurements were presumably counteracted as the building rose above ground level . |
| 2 | Our Flag printed New Year messages in 1914 from Lansdowne , Bonar Law , Selborne , Austen Chamberlain , Long , Carson , Smith , Steel-Maitland , Lord Edmund Talbot , and George Younger , in that order ; the last three were presumably included as Party Chairman , Chief Whip and Scottish Whip , but the rest of the list may be taken as indicative of a rough order of precedence at that time . |
| 3 | He invited scores of congressmen and journalists , civic officials and academics to visit Iran and made sure they were lavishly received and entertained . |
| 4 | In the free industrial zones , trade unions were unofficially banned and the government refused to recognize the unions that were formed , although they fulfilled the legal requirements . |
| 5 | Job evaluation , however , was an ideal application for the use of interactive computing during negotiations in that : ( i ) the issues were clear cut and technical ( no elements of pure judgement , such as the value of a cooperation clause , were present , for example ) ; ( ii ) several different facets of the outcome were important ( grade specific rates of upgrading being relevant , not merely the overall upgrading figure ; the effect on individual formations , not just the overall position ) making manual calculations particularly slow and cumbersome . |
| 6 | All 40 outstanding documents were duly written and agreed by the Bulgarian Nuclear safety Authority in time for execution . |
| 7 | However , Paine 's observations were duly recognized when Florey and his colleagues published their substantial text on antibiotics in 1949 . |
| 8 | Thoresby 's contents were duly auctioned or removed and a major historic ensemble was completely dispersed . |
| 9 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 10 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 11 | A couple of papers were duly bought and after that we parted company . |
| 12 | The teams praises were duly sung and I drew my fair share of the applause . |
| 13 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 14 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 15 | This follows a feasibility study funded by ESRC ( 1984-1986 ) in which the methods were successfully demonstrated and half the material was processed ( 10,000 sheets ) . |
| 16 | Ten adult elephants — each with a number painted on it — were successfully moved and released in this fashion . |
| 17 | All of the babies were successfully trained before they could walk although there were sporadic accidents if the potty was completely out of sight . |
| 18 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 19 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 20 | Instead they simply enlarged until , by the time that the caterpillar was full grown , they were vastly distended and many thousand times bigger than their original size . |
| 21 | Our supporters were vastly outnumbered but at least we could hear them . |
| 22 | The horse 's nostrils were vastly inflated and it was panting rhythmically as its hooves struck the hard ground . |
| 23 | Both sets of policies were weakly enforced and , as far as the positive discrimination policies were concerned , very small amounts of money were spent . |
| 24 | The absence of Essex and Lancashire brought a new look to the boys ' championship and matches were keenly contested before Kent claimed the title . |
| 25 | Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment , not in prison . |
| 26 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 27 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 28 | Fifteen people were eventually charged and sentenced . |
| 29 | Losses from the PCW case were eventually settled after contributions were made by Lloyd 's , the syndicate investors , brokers and other agents in the London insurance market . |
| 30 | Miss Elizabeth Brown , whose flat overlooks the alley where the dogs were eventually cornered and shot , said : ‘ I looked into the alleyway and saw the dogs going mad . |