Example sentences of "were [verb] [pron] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 2 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 3 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 4 | It was immediately adjourned by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party when it became clear that the opposition parties were continuing their boycott of the legislature . |
| 5 | As Japanese , Thai and Khmer Rouge officials met in Bangkok to try to end the impasse , the Khmers Rouges suddenly announced on Aug. 27 that they were dropping their boycott of the peace monitoring process and would resume co-operation with UNTAC . |
| 6 | Indeed , in the pre-war years peasant households of this kind were increasing their proportion of the land , output and inventory of central Russia . |