Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded .
2 At this stage Pons was involved primarily with his job as departmental chairman and was following progress relatively remotely ; Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations .
3 Killion and Kimberley were keeping the other Germans honest .
4 Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch .
5 One wonders if our worthy Bishop Russel were to see the sporting activities taking place today especially in the Holy weeks and time spent in the worship of television what punishments he would hand out .
6 The unintended consequences of the diminished role of the MCC were to erode the very functions of Field Chairs which made the post worthwhile , to make them less informed by removing opportunity for MCC debate and replacing it with reports of MMRC , debates , and to reduce the contribution that fields could make to Modular Course development .
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