Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 2 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 3 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 4 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 5 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 6 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 7 | They were not in a position to remind them that " an Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of the Lord " ( Deut. 23.4 ) — if it is true that the Tobiads were Ammonites . |
| 8 | ‘ They were not in the safe ? ’ |
| 9 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 10 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 12 | But Lakeside resident Ron Howe said they were not against the traffic calming proposals for Skerne Park . |
| 13 | You heard when they were n't at the reservation any more and you heard of the new man arriving . |
| 14 | We were in this theatre watching The Crucible ( no great significance about that , the Sixth Form had tried out their exam text on us ) only they were n't on a stage , they were up on tight-ropes , and it was our job as audience to keep them up there , and we did that by holding our breaths . |
| 15 | But they were n't on an island ; he had other relationships and she did not wish to complicate her life with his inadequacies and hang-ups . |
| 16 | They were n't on the dance-floor , either . |
| 17 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
| 18 | They had ordered halves of the local draught beer which they were n't in a hurry to finish . |
| 19 | They were n't , they were n't in the wall ? |
| 20 | They were n't in the studio |
| 21 | Yeah tell them that you wanted them , and they were n't like the description |
| 22 | The business with the whore had proved that they were up to no good . |
| 23 | In November 1987 they were up before the court on badger digging charges — one got off due to inadequate evidence . |
| 24 | They were up against a side encouraged by a large , partisan crowd but kept their discipline and got a good result . |
| 25 | They were already in the sala , having a pre-dinner drink , when Maggie walked in , and she knew that at least one pair of dark eyes watched her sardonically . |
| 26 | They were nearly into the spa town , and were waiting while a trolley-bus took right of way , when she saw no reason not to ask what seemed to her a perfectly natural question . |
| 27 | They were previously in the collection of the artist and his wife and many have the archive stamp of that collection on the reverse . |
| 28 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |
| 29 | Now they were practically in the afterlife , and here it all was again … . |
| 30 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |