Example sentences of "[noun pl] were often [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries covers were often boards in the true Anglo-Saxon sense , being of oak or beech covered with leather . |
| 2 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 3 | In the past , the engagement jewels were often bracelets . |
| 4 | The wider ones were bridged by old railway sleepers — good army improvisation ! — but the rest one had to jump , and the banks were often mud . |
| 5 | Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses . |
| 6 | In the pursuit of generality these items were often nonsense syllables . |
| 7 | In fact village tribunal presidents were often relatives or allies of chief headmen , who usually controlled appointments of other headmen . |
| 8 | Indeed , the opposite was frequently nearer the truth , for their leaders were often members of the lower nobility , driven to making war in this way by economic factors and , in some cases , by being younger sons with little hope of inheritance . |
| 9 | Its leaders were often student radicals , members of groups like the SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society ) ; but the wave of protest took in many young people who would not normally have got involved in politics . |
| 10 | If these men were often Paris graduates as well as graduates of Oxford or Cambridge , they at least knew the thought-processes and tactics of their French counterparts well . |
| 11 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |
| 12 | From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals . |
| 13 | A few people were real risk-takers ; these types were often company directors , and inveterate investors . |
| 14 | The peasants did not fail to note that the correspondents were often ex-clerks of the Tsarist regime , and so extremely bureaucratic and long used to writing what their employers wanted to read . |
| 15 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |