Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 2 | They were glad to have him in the gang and he was delighted to be among them . |
| 3 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 4 | We were also delighted that so many employees and their families were able to join us in the evening after the opening ceremony to look around the plant for the first time . |
| 5 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |