Example sentences of "were [vb pp] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 2 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 3 | On day 1 2 , 5 , 10 , 20 , 50 , and 100 ml of milk were given and on day 2 the normal milk intake appropriate for age was started . |
| 4 | As an observer of that scene , I think that , when history is accurately written , there will be great tribute to the manner in which help , encouragement and advice of considerable quality were given and to the mobilising of the western world to accept that change was taking place . |
| 5 | Unlike Tamar , her horizons were limited and in her opinion her daughter 's remarks were almost blasphemous . |
| 6 | In 1901 the Social Revolutionaries were formed and in 1903 the Liberal Party and Social Democrats were established . |
| 7 | This , however , was the political and intellectual world to which our young colonials were exposed and from where they developed their own particular world views . |
| 8 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 9 | This meant that criminal laws were clarified and in some countries codified , as both Beccaria and Bentham advocated , but leaving a greater degree of flexibility and judicial discretion than either would have found congenial . |
| 10 | In the next three days five other villages in north-east Armenia were attacked and at least 20 more hostages were taken , most of them Armenian policemen , but an attack on the village of Artzvashen was avoided when the 5,000 inhabitants complied with an ultimatum by troops surrounding the village to surrender weapons . |
| 11 | Building began that year and by February 1984 the warehouses were occupied and by April the offices were ready too . |
| 12 | Over a 16-month period , 296 accidents were reported and of these , 285 were falls ( 3 were scalds , and 8 were abrasions caused by wheelchairs ) and the falls were most likely to occur among those who had suffered previous falls indoors , frequently because of impaired gait and balance , associated usually with a pathological condition . |
| 13 | Out of a force of 17,700 , of whom 10,600 were Italian and the rest native troops , over 6000 were killed , nearly 1500 were wounded and between 3000 and 4000 were taken prisoner . |
| 14 | But they are perfectly rational to the people who were interviewed and to their families . |
| 15 | But Wilkins , at 36 playing better than ever , was instrumental in the club 's 2-0 win at Wimbledon and said : ’ We were committed and in the end we came through . ’ |
| 16 | After pressing , the pockets were tied and then stored in the ground-floor storage area , which was only required as a space in which the pockets were hung and for stoking the fires in the kilns . |
| 17 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 18 | Improvements could be made , however , in the way inductions were presented and in the facilities at John Wood House for carrying them out . |
| 19 | Significantly , following the introduction of MINIS into the DOE , directorates were reorganized and within four years departmental manpower fell by 15,000 ( 29 per cent ) ( Heseltine , 1987 , p. 18 ) . |
| 20 | Because of the hostile environment for which they were built and in which they excel , Beavers are rarely seen by us ‘ soft ’ folk from civilization ; yet who knows how many are still soldiering on ( Beavering away ? ) in the jungles , mountains , deserts and tundra of the world ? |
| 21 | A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data . |
| 22 | Further data on these geomagnetic reversals were collected and by the mid-1960s a chronology of reversals had been established through the radiometric dating of a large number of samples from all over the world . |
| 23 | But the protesters were oumumbered and at the end of an hour they had been thrown out , some of them after suffering enough physical damage to require a visit to the casualty department of Hammersmith hospital . |
| 24 | It thus provides a vernacular equivalent for the uneducated ; and , by poetically fusing the Scriptural texts with the way in which they were interpreted and with emotional understanding of such meaning , it enables a response to the significance of the Incarnation . |
| 25 | This use of technology ( like Jethro Tull 's seed drill ) increased agricultural productivity : by replacing men by machines or giving men machines to work with more crops were produced and with less labour power . |
| 26 | In 1910 carriage building was transferred from the locomotive works at Gorton , Manchester , to a new works at Dukinfield , where main-line and suburban carriages ( which were amongst the most comfortable in Britain ) were produced and from 1915 onwards fitted with Robinson 's anti-collision buffers and fenders , which gave improved protection from accidents . |
| 27 | This situation is different from the condition in which the present studies were performed and in which pressures were recorded over long periods , with the patient not being asked to take swallows . |
| 28 | A very limited range of deprivation indicators were used and at least one of the regression coefficients included in the final model is not statistically significant . |
| 29 | In 860 , for instance , when Charles needed cash to hire a Viking warband , he taxed not only churches and peasants but also " traders , even very small-scale ones : their houses and all their stock were valued and on that basis a rate was assessed and required " . |
| 30 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |