Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war was averted , but while the 120-strong squadron of cavalry were able to hold back the rioters in Aÿ , they were unwilling to engage their fellow citizens in open conflict and failed to prevent the mob from sacking and burning the premises of Ayala , Bissinger and Deutz & Geldermann in Aÿ . |
| 2 | Although it happens far less frequently , a divorced man can rely on his former wife 's contribution record during the years they were married to improve his basic pension . |
| 3 | For example , nearly one-quarter of people in prison are there because they were unable to pay their fine , others are there because of ‘ consenting ’ sex below the age of consent , drug addiction , being drunk and disorderly , or begging abroad . |
| 4 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 5 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 6 | The research also demonstrated that older workers could maximize their efficiency if they were able to control their own work pace . |
| 7 | Before , they had produced some good samples but this time they were able to show me some fine quality knitwear including knitted underwear . |
| 8 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 9 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 10 | They were afraid to take me any more . |
| 11 | In such circumstances , they were reluctant to abandon their own positions for a possibly lesser place in a new party in which Ian Paisley would play a major part . |
| 12 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 13 | She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions . |
| 14 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 15 | Well , you know , apart from anything else they always they were prepared to give me free tickets for the would never do that . |
| 16 | Earlier , Baker had told NATO ministers that he had been satisfactorily assured by the four republics which he had visited that they were prepared to place their nuclear weapons under one authority , with some republics expressing interest in becoming non-nuclear powers [ see also p. 38655 ] . |
| 17 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 18 | They were free to pursue their loyalist goals unhindered , while making strong-sounding nationalist statements which authenticated their leadership among the local community where they had economic or family status . |
| 19 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |