Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various people were due to address them at various moments , in particular Winston . |
| 2 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 3 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |
| 4 | The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced . |
| 5 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 6 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 7 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |