Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 She and the others — when they let their capes fall open-were wearing one-piece outfits of a lighter and duller blue than their capes , with black boots and belts .
2 It 's a measure of the esteem in which Altman is held that many of the close to 70 stars who appear were willing to commit themselves to a project which so ruthlessly satirizes their very existence .
3 As long as the problems being addressed were limited , the degree of acceptable organizational change was limited .
4 Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre .
5 Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm .
6 The main cultures which Spengler analysed were the Apollinian ( Classical ) , Magian ( Eastern ) and Faustian ( Western ) .
7 Because the women he raped and assaulted were trusting enough to accept one glass of wine from him ?
8 On old-style electoral registration forms it told the form-filler to put a tick in a particular column if the person listed were over 65 , for they were ineligible for jury service , it quoted baldly and starkly , ‘ on grounds of age ’ .
9 For Sparc , the weaknesses listed were not significant , except to say that Sparc is unlikely to support Windows NT .
10 ‘ A pretty ’ manufacturing town , Dursley had several residents who look as though they operated the water trucking mills ; unusually for the area , more than half the fifty-two persons listed were rated at less than 40s. , some of them probably millhands , though others must have laboured in the stone quarry which caught Leland 's eye .
11 Other topics listed were all covered by a majority of courses .
12 Among the 22 factors listed were : the right technical skills to the job ; good understanding of the client 's business ; being proactive ; being able to introduce business leads and having access to international resources .
13 The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro .
14 Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world .
15 When the rewrites were presented by Codron and Wood , Ken was out of character again .
16 The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted .
17 The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick .
18 However all the men we had come to meet were extremely courteous .
19 Criticising new Dublin senator Gordon Wilson 's comments that the IRA men he plans to meet were human beings and had suffered too , the East Belfast MP said : ‘ They have n't suffered half enough . ’
20 Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect !
21 And I were laughing were n't I ?
22 The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate .
23 After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 .
24 Among those whom Collor retained were the three ministers with responsibility for military portfolios and the Economy Minister Marcílio Marques Moreira , who was identified with the IMF-approved economic austerity programme .
25 Proposals that wages should be linked directly to age were put forward by labour unions in the later 1940s as a way of establishing a wage profile that reflected the increasing levels of housing or educational spending , but the slope of the female wage profile shows that the age/wage connection may not be universal .
26 The staff at Usher were advised to leave the danger zone .
27 I was shattered were n't we , but we
28 These craft were particularly active in the southern part of the Gulf , adding to the incentives to watchfulness in the Hormuz area .
29 Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability .
30 In opinion polls last year , 55% of Italians supported the treaty ; that was 85% if the don't-knows were excluded , the highest level of approval in Europe ( see table ) .
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