Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 2 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 3 | Scholars assume that modern Basque derives from the original tongue of the Celtiberians , the ancient people of Spain who were eventually overcome by the Romans . |
| 4 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 5 | They were intimately connected with the elements and could be petitioned to control rain and wind on mortals ' behalf . |
| 6 | This meant that in spite of their class selfishness and legalistic pedantry they were widely regarded as the defenders of liberty and established rights ( the two were still largely synonymous ) against royal autocracy and ‘ ministerial despotism ’ . |
| 7 | Troops who fought for pay were little discussed in the sources ; but Henry I 's insurance policy in the treaty of 1101 — not invoked , as far as we know — cost £500 sterling a year . |
| 8 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 9 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 10 | The Kaszubian people who lived along the western Danzig suburbs were badly affected by the changes of Prussian and German rule . |
| 11 | The Foundation 's director , Valmik Thapar , also criticized the project 's failure to take into account the needs of local people living on the fringes of the reserves , some of whom were forcibly relocated outside the boundaries when the parks were created . |
| 12 | Their attempts to acquire Bigorre and Comminges were effectively blocked by the counts of Foix , but Bernard VI of Armagnac 's inheritance of the town and comté of Rodez in 1304 ( as a result of his second marriage to Cécile , daughter of Henri , count of Rodez ) was a valuable acquisition . |
| 13 | On May 3 the remains of Enver Hoxha and 12 other " former leaders of the Party of Labour " ( the PLA — the former ruling party , later renamed the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) were discreetly transferred from the Martyrs ' Cemetery in Tirana to a public cemetery in the suburbs of the city . |
| 14 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
| 15 | Those tasks were mostly left to the Justices of the Peace and other commissioners , or to such lesser men as constables and overseers of the poor . |
| 16 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 17 | Contrary to the old view that monks and nuns were brutally discarded into the roads to swell a growing army of miserable vagrants , most of them did remarkably well , with posts in the new Church of England or pensions . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal … dismissed an appeal from two Liverpool police constables against the awarding of £15 each as damages to Edwin Ledwith and Christopher Crothers , on the grounds that they were wrongly arrested by the appellants . |
| 19 | In this case , a simulated prison was created and twenty-four volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of ‘ guard ’ or ‘ prisoner ’ . |
| 20 | They were constantly issuing from the lips of ministers . |
| 21 | They were highly regarded by the farmers , both for their local knowledge and their strenuous efforts to have this knowledge understood and used by the MAFF scientists in Whitehall . |
| 22 | The logarithms of soluble fatty acid concentrations in the faeces were highly correlated with the logarithms of precipitated faecal calcium and phosphate concentrations ( respectively -0.85 and -0.76 , n=48 ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 23 | The reason the vegetables were so luscious was that they were abundantly nourished with the contents of the pozzo nero , the hospital cesspit . |
| 24 | Pensioners were among those who were hardest hit by the rates of taxation and inflation of the 1970s . |
| 25 | But these values were much influenced by the changes in the value of the dollar , both in relation to other currencies and in relation to world prices . |
| 26 | Few were much convinced by the denials , and the proprietor , editor and staff of the People were quite naturally furious at this behaviour on the part of ‘ Honest Stanley ’ . |
| 27 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 28 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 29 | I have been told that the companies were merely prompted by the orders to ’ review ’ their commercial strategy . |
| 30 | Women who could carry a child under each arm on a day 's shopping trip were told they were not strong enough to do men 's work ; that lifting and lugging were better left to the lads after all . |