Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 3 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 4 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 5 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |