Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foundations of the popularity of the seamen were laid at the end of the fifteenth century with the voyages of discovery of Bartholomew Diaz , Vasco da Gama , John Cabot and Christopher Columbus — the space explorers of their times . |
| 2 | The flames were licking at the window . |
| 3 | The flames were licking at the window . |
| 4 | Although such overtures to work the mines were directed at the Lord of the Manor , really at this time the landowner was not it , a proper legal position to let out the veins on his land where these Carried the Royal Minerals , gold and silver . |
| 5 | But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage . |
| 6 | The scripts were marked at the NFER and the results fed back to the schools in the form of a computer printout . |
| 7 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |
| 8 | When the houses were built at the same time and |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the British unhappiness , the proposals were accepted at the meeting of foreign ministers in London , where Britain had a final victory in defeating a proposal from France and Italy that the new body should be named the European Union . |
| 10 | Some of the pictures were sold at the Stourhead heirlooms sale at Christie 's in 1883 . |
| 11 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 12 | Next morning , the trumpets were blown at the North Gate and the Knight Marischal 's banner hoisted , with shouted demands for King Edward to appear . |
| 13 | Revolutionary Iran responded with the familiar accusation that the superpowers were uniting at the expense of Iran to secure their own interests . |
| 14 | The court took the view that the case raised issues that were sufficiently difficult , as could be seen from the fact that the parties were represented at the hearing by counsel , to justify the decision that the procedure had been an arbitration . |
| 15 | Originally the bones were kept at the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 16 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 17 | The casualties were detained at the Westminster Hospital where the woman was being treated for back injuries and the men for shock . |
| 18 | As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year . |
| 19 | The awards were presented at the annual coaches dinner sponsored by the Post Office . |
| 20 | The finals were held at the Forth Road Bridge Car Park on Sunday 27 June 1993 . |
| 21 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 22 | In the relevant tax years , 1983–84 , 1984–85 and 1985–86 , children of one or more of the taxpayers were educated at the school on payment of the concessionary fees only . |
| 23 | Many of the paintings were shown at the Museo Civico Archeologico , Bologna , the Pinacoteca Civica and Chiesa del Rosario , Cento , and the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt , before the present showing . |
| 24 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 25 | After the cement was loaded ( up to 404 lbs per cask ) , the circular lid was firmly tapped into place , the destination and other details were burned upon the lid , and the hoops were tightened at the top to hold the lid in place . |
| 26 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 27 | The announcements were made at the InterOp conference in Washington . |
| 28 | Leeds City 's fixtures were taken over by Port Vale , while the players were auctioned at the Hotel Metropole in the strangest football sale of the century . |
| 29 | The demonstrators were protesting at the imminent loss of 5,000 jobs in the region in the mining , steel , shipbuilding and fertilizer industries , and expressing fears for the future of at least half of Cartagana 's active workforce of 60,000 . |
| 30 | Since the livrets were published at the time of the performances , they presumably reflect what the audiences actually heard . |