Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 3 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 4 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 5 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 6 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 7 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |