Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The muffled words were given a seductive rhythm by the drumming of the rain . |
| 2 | Before the guidelines were introduced the referral rate from general practitioners for examinations covered by the guidelines was 88.4/1000 registered patients ( table I ) . |
| 3 | school whilst , through the gates , his schoolmates were having a thoroughly good time . |
| 4 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 5 | Non-members were charged a total of over £2,000 for use of library services . |
| 6 | But he argued : ‘ I do n't know why the fans were having a go at me . |
| 7 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 8 | Again ! ’ said the Robemaker , his voice liquid and clotted now , and the two slaves swung again , a little higher this time , so that the hard , straight shin bones were sliced across , and the boy 's legs were shortened a little more . |
| 9 | Katharine cantered Benji in a smaller and smaller circle , keeping a strong outside rein so that his hind legs were marking a smaller circle and working towards a canter pirouette . |
| 10 | However most walkers were enjoying the view of me with a glove covered in steaming soup and a face streaming with tears . |
| 11 | Later in the nineteenth century , following the work of Green and of Kelvin , thermodynamic considerations were introduced a well as the concept of a strain energy function . |
| 12 | In addition to raw fish and squid , the baby penguins were fed a special ‘ Belfast Zoo ’ supplement containing minerals and vitamins . |
| 13 | It is , for example , remarkable that almost half of all medical students are women , when as recently as 1974 medical schools were operating a quota system to keep women out . |
| 14 | In education , schools were given a similar opportunity to opt out of local government control . |
| 15 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 17 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 18 | Orthodox Muslim parents felt that the schools were making an almost deliberate attempt to obstruct them in their efforts to bring up their daughters as Muslims . |
| 19 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 20 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 21 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 22 | When the final text of the poem was published after its author 's death , readers were given a revised version . |
| 23 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 24 | Under the 1980 Social Security Act this system was maintained but local offices were given the discretion to pay in full the charges made by private and voluntary residential homes . |
| 25 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 26 | The journalists were granted an interview with His Grace , the Bishop of Danu . |
| 27 | Since the last World War , soldiering , as a profession , had lost its romantic appeal , but in Vietnam the journalists were given the chance of acting out fantasies about themselves , war , love and death . |
| 28 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 29 | Behind him there was a crescendo of applause , and before it could stop the guards were ushering the members of that sinister audience to their rooms . |
| 30 | Military units were to stage a show depicting victories over counter-revolutionaries for the benefit of invited workers . |