Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 2 | The dogs who attacked Becky were destroyed the same day . |
| 3 | On 30 June 1989 , Captain Knowles and Warrant Officer Fowles were visiting the Army 's transit training camp at Scarborough to ensure that 35 Signal Regiment ( V ) from London on their annual summer training camp were enjoying a satisfactory standard of catering . |
| 4 | It would therefore follow that unless Molla Yegan were using the title though in fact an ex-kadi , he must have become kadi again in the years alter returning with Molla Gurani . |
| 5 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 6 | These stated that Angell and Pownall were to consider the competition conditions , and to : |
| 7 | Q Associates Ltd from Newbury in Berkshire were showing the MiLAN family of LAN communications products , transceivers and printer servers . |
| 8 | A goal down with only two minutes to go , Juventus were awarded the spot-kick when striker Paolo Di Canio was brought down . |
| 9 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |
| 10 | And if Richard were to resign the duchy then some interesting prospects would open up . |
| 11 | When Gray and Mr Trelawney were helping the captain , I climbed quickly out of the stockade and ran into the trees . |
| 12 | At this stage Pons was involved primarily with his job as departmental chairman and was following progress relatively remotely ; Fleischmann and Hawkins were making the detailed investigations . |
| 13 | Yet women like Jane Nicholson were doing the really important things . ’ |
| 14 | The Titfords were sharing the house with William Parker , a 28-year-old warehouseman with a Manchester and Bradford merchant , born in Devon , and his wife Louisa , aged 21 , from Greenwich . |
| 15 | Mercifully , Islington was not the disease-trap that nearby Shoreditch was , and the Titfords were spared the fate of many of their fellow citizens . |
| 16 | By the early 1970s the CDP , the individual polytechnic directors and voices in and around the CNAA were proclaiming the achievements of the new sector , despite the difficulties of course recognition or underfunding . |
| 17 | Although Pakistan inched forward in the eight overs following the welcome tea-break , England were pulling the strings . |
| 18 | But with five minutes left , Chester were gifted the equaliser . |
| 19 | But during the next few decades , nitrates and minerals in the Andes , wheat and beef in Argentina , and coffee in Brazil were to draw the railways outwards . |
| 20 | In yesterday 's games there were double sendings-off at Tranmere , where Aldo Monza of Cosenza and Neil McNab were shown the red card after an 80th minute bust-up , and West Ham , who had Matthew Rush dismissed along with Pisa 's Giovanni Fasce after a flare-up early in the second half . |
| 21 | By 1808 there was a developed pattern of street violence and the ‘ people ’ of the barrios bajos — the poor southern quarter of Madrid — after functioning as the ‘ blind instruments ’ of an aristocratic fronde against Godoy were to become the heroes of the Second of May , when they rose against the French troops . |
| 22 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 23 | However , over the next ten years or so , the other predictions of the theory at lower energies agreed so well with experiment that , in 1979 , Salam and Weinberg were awarded the Nobel prize for physics , together with Sheldon Glashow , also at Harvard , who had suggested similar unified theories of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces . |
| 24 | Under the floor of the pillar crypts in the West Wing at Knossos were deposited the ashes of animal sacrifices : the pillars above were incised repeatedly with the sacred double-axe symbol . |
| 25 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 26 | Thérèse and Léonie were laying the table . |
| 27 | In the ateliers of the palace the artists Govardhan , Bichitr and Abul Hasan were illuminating the finest of the great Mughal manuscript books ; in Agra , the gleaming white dome of the Taj Mahal was being raised on its plinth above the River Jumna . |
| 28 | MIDLANDS were denied the outright title in the Bank of Scotland Schools District Championship when they lost to the South by 13–19 at Netherdale in their final match . |
| 29 | If Canada were to meet the logistical and commercial demands of the organisers , ought they not to be seriously considered ? |
| 30 | If Ibanez were to revise the digital half-speed idea outlined above , the RP50 would become an essential part of the trainee shredder 's armoury . |