Example sentences of "[vb past] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm . |
| 3 | The main cultures which Spengler analysed were the Apollinian ( Classical ) , Magian ( Eastern ) and Faustian ( Western ) . |
| 4 | Because the women he raped and assaulted were trusting enough to accept one glass of wine from him ? |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | For Sparc , the weaknesses listed were not significant , except to say that Sparc is unlikely to support Windows NT . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Other topics listed were all covered by a majority of courses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro . |
| 11 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 12 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 13 | The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 19 | The equipment which saved Ray was bought by the Thame business United Biscuits , and some of the staff who contributed were also at the pub today to meet the man who owes his life to their generosity . |
| 20 | However , where , as was the case with Akzo 's pricing policy , the prices charged were below average total cost ( that is , including fixed costs ) but above average variable cost , they could only be considered predatory if they were established as part of a plan to eliminate competitors . |
| 21 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 22 | Privately the words he used were ‘ I 'll be jiggered . |
| 23 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 24 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 25 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 26 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
| 27 | The terms used were ESN(S) , or severely educationally sub-normal , and ESN(M) , variously used to describe mild , moderate or medium handicaps . |
| 28 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 29 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 30 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |