Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] they [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 2 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 3 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 4 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 5 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 6 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 7 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 8 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 9 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 10 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 11 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 12 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 13 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 14 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |