Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tadjik Communist Party central committee on March 3 expelled from the party Buri Karimov and Nur Tabarov , and on March 19 they were dismissed by the Tadjik Supreme Soviet as , respectively , a Deputy Chairman of the Tadjik Council of Ministers and Tadjik Minister of Culture , for having " compromised themselves " during nationalist unrest in the Tadjik capital , Dushanbe , in mid-February . |
| 2 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 3 | They were seated round the long oak table , with the remains of supper still spread out . |
| 4 | Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale . |
| 5 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 6 | In early May they were received by the British Ambassador in Constantinople . |
| 7 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 8 | And any any reso what I call resolutions that were passed they were sent to the proper departments of government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 12 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 13 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 16 | They were overcome by the thundering avalanche as they skied on a fairly flat , marked piste on a mountain at St Martine De Belleville in sunny weather on Saturday . |
| 17 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 18 | They were treated at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for minor injuries . |
| 19 | The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else . |
| 20 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 21 | They were integrated into the large body of at least 229 painters and makers of images recorded in the taxation rolls for Paris between 1292 and 1313 . |
| 22 | They were presented with the Grand Opera House Cup by Mrs Pat Henderson , wife of the Association 's president . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass . |
| 25 | At filling stations they were banished to the far-flung corners of the forecourt , away from the well-lit protection of covered petrol pumps , to battle 32-tonners for a turn at the diesel pump . |
| 26 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 27 | Then they were rocking past the shut faces of the village houses towards the black thickets down the river . |
| 28 | And they were supported by the British . |
| 29 | Employees qualified for travel expenses while they were commuting between the old and new locations , before moving into accommodation in the new area . |
| 30 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |