Example sentences of "[coord] they were a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 2 | There were two Waaf Officers , General Duties , on the strength at Binbrook , and they were a bit of a trial to us . |
| 3 | But there they were , in their thousands , or it may have been millions , and they were a horrific threat to the survival of humanity on this planet . |
| 4 | I was a young engineer and they were a young band , and we were all finding our way . |
| 5 | And they were a good bunch of people , but the down side was that Armitage & Norton was much more friendly and accessible . ’ |
| 6 | I could talk to them and they were a great comfort . |
| 7 | Erm but down in the Rift Valley the Pocot people were a very different tribe , they wore leather , little tiny leather skirts and cowrie shells and nothing here , and it was very very hot , and they were a nomadic people who erm moved about with their animals but because , when I was there , there 'd been a very bad drought , they 'd had to erm just beg really for food . |
| 8 | The Santuario was looked after by Dominican monks , and they were a pretty shrewd lot when it came to business . |
| 9 | The demand for working class seaside visits in Lancashire predated the railways and they were a convenience for , rather than a cause of , its subsequent growth … |
| 10 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 11 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 12 | The sun was up , and they were a mile or more downriver , in wider and less turgid reaches , where some of the best fishing pools deepened under the right bank . |
| 13 | First to er , Peter 's point about er Gillian Sheppard , on the er , on the er Direct , I must say to you , I got a bit of a surprise when I saw Gillian Sheppard in such brazen er fashion on er on Direct , but you know , you 've quickly got answers in this organization , and somebody said ah well , it was meant to be an obituary to her and they were a bit perceptive in that er respect . |
| 14 | And they were a complete success . |
| 15 | Research commissioned by the Department of Education and Science indicated that the average loss of benefits among students who actually claimed them — and they were a minority — would have been some £327 in the past academic year . |
| 16 | And they were a lot angrier . |
| 17 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
| 18 | And when she worked here , she had her daughter working with her and they were a team and they went like a bomb . |
| 19 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 20 | Oh there was 's shop and they were a baker and grocer . |
| 21 | or whatever and they were a hundred pounds a week or |
| 22 | I think that 's what Tony 's harking back to , the old style when you went and they were a bit er callous . |
| 23 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 24 | And it was worn in the eighteen forties , and they were a very ordinary , ordinary family , I ca n't remember what Mr Dew did , but I mean , it was nothing special , he was he was just an ordinary professional man I think . |
| 25 | ‘ But they were a justifiable attempt to redress the balance : the All Blacks have recently had five Test matches , whereas we have n't played together since March . |
| 26 | However , ‘ there would be swearing , there would be people coming in drunk … staggering from the local pubs into the ground , but they were a tiny , tiny minority and you would get the odd fight breaking out ’ . |
| 27 | But they were a disaster nonetheless . |
| 28 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 29 | No , the beautiful objects could not be called proof , but they were a suggestion — the merest indication — that there might be some sort of link between their present owner , the burial mound , and the foresters ' custom described at the farm by Alice . |
| 30 | But they were a substantial minority , and those historians who have recently been studying inheritance have reached some interesting conclusions . |