Example sentences of "they were [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 3 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 4 | erm Southwell centenary , which is next year if you recall , erm we 've at a previous meeting I raised this erm the point with councillors that next year is our centenary of our formation , we do n't have any archives unfortunately , er they were lost in the last sort of decade . |
| 5 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 6 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were recovered in the first salvage expedition to the wreck since 1987 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Professional city-dwellers , they were experienced in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 14 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |