Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the paternalistic traditions of the great landowners could be married relatively easily to the responsibilities of a Welfare State , because in many ways they were not really that different . |
| 2 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 3 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 4 | Before looking at the day-to-day working of the system in London and Birmingham , it is worth pausing to describe the role of the school care committees , for in both cities they were the vital link in the attempt to make the transition an educational rather than an industrial process . |
| 5 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 6 | Most of the many Women 's Action/Support Groups were founded spontaneously by residents of the communities , though in many cases they were stimulated to act by either or both of Scargill 's rhetoric and the example of other communities — often perceived through the voluminous television coverage achieved . |
| 7 | Transport services were costly and hard to organise ( though in many cases they were extremely carefully organised ) . |
| 8 | The importance of the police gradually increased , but as in many societies they were often regarded with suspicion , fear or contempt . |