Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |
| 32 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 33 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 34 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 35 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 36 | For instance , when the accountant produces the band 's first accounts , and files them with the Inland Revenue , the invoices for the band 's musical equipment may need to be produced so that the accountant may obtain tax relief for these items , although they were purchased in the first stage of a band 's life . |
| 37 | They were recovered in the first salvage expedition to the wreck since 1987 . |
| 38 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |
| 39 | Professional city-dwellers , they were experienced in the twentieth century . |
| 40 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 41 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 42 | In 1920 they were promoted to the First Division and got to their first Cup final , against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge , where they were beaten 1–0 . |
| 43 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 44 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 45 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 46 | It was the biggest body-blow the club had taken since they were dumped into the Second Division 20 years ago . |
| 47 | He wrote the opening and closing signature tunes for the program , but they were dumped after the first season and replaced with ‘ something a little more distinctive ’ . |
| 48 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |
| 49 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 51 | Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom . |
| 52 | The Old Mill , at the west end of the village , was still operative until the early years of the Second World War , and the New Mill at the east end , which lost its sails in a gale so severe that parts of them were found in the next village , has been restored in recent years and is now a very attractive dwelling . |