Example sentences of "they were [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were raised in the middle years of the last century from sturdy stocks and grey slate , with glorious tiled floors and superb vaulted ceilings . |
| 2 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 3 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 4 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As they were examined in the special admission ward Doctor and our Medical Superintendent tried to keep families together . |
| 7 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 8 | They were drinking in the Red Anchor ; it was noon or just past , and still a full working day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 11 | In addition to these structural changes — and they were to continue in the 1970s and 1980s with Channel Four and TV-am , to say nothing of cable systems and satellite broadcasting — the underlying philosophy of broadcasting was being increasingly and powerfully challenged . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some of the worst estates are n't the oldest , they were built in the fifties rush . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We Think The World of You is about the class wars as they were waged in the 50s before the rules were changed for ever . |
| 16 | Of those vessels , 53 were originally registered in Spain and flew the Spanish flag , but on various dates as from 1980 they were registered in the British register . |
| 17 | There they remained until they were discovered in the late nineteenth century . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 20 | The small lines at the corners were new , though , and they were echoed in the faint lines of tension etched around his eyes . |
| 21 | Morning and evening they were exercised in the nearby meadows , and we often accompanied our father on these walks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 25 | They were placed in the wooden rack to mature and acquire a skin or rind . |
| 26 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 27 | A patient was considered to have a previous diagnosis of asthma if they were enrolled in the pulmonary clinic with the diagnosis of asthma , were receiving chronic bronchodilator therapy , and had a FEV 1 of not less than 1.5 litres . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were recovered in the first salvage expedition to the wreck since 1987 . |
| 30 | They were rejoicing in the splendid Irish Guinness they drank and bemoaned the sad state of beer back in Britain . |