Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now between during the period from the decision of Mr Justice in March nineteen ninety one and the issue of the sealed order in May nineteen ninety three , it 's clear from correspondence which has been put before me that there were er various negotiations and discussions between the solicitors for the plaintiff and the defendant dealing with the questions of costs and also with the question of a general settlement of the whole action , er it would be appreciated of course that Mr Justice order does not have the effect of determining finally the rights of the parties , erm other than the partnership has in fact dissolved because there were still outstanding issues in particular relating to the premises which were used as the surgery of the premises of the part of the prac of the practice or perhaps I should say former practice . |
| 2 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 3 | Perhaps not surprisingly for some Americans , as Heath reported , it was not the Vietminh who were seen as the enemy but the French . |
| 4 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 5 | This huge fourfold piece of political iconography , comparable as imperial propaganda to the Great Exhibition in London of 1851 , was executed we should remember by a single hand and was therefore surely centrally commissioned ; but it is equally significant of the proud standing of the demes that they were chosen as the vehicle for this glorious Attica-wide religious boasting . |
| 6 | They were known as The Fancy — that is those who fancied that particular activity . |
| 7 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |