Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 2 | Jack now discovered that the Motion Picture Association of America had given it an ‘ X ’ rating and Columbia — who were to release the Movie for general distribution — had a policy at that time that they would never release an X-rated picture . |
| 3 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 4 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 5 | It was the échevins who were to represent the towns in all the proceedings of the following year ; and once Thierry of Alsace was safely ensconced as count , he could hardly subvert their position . |
| 6 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 7 | And I understand that there was a reception which erm in as far as I 'm aware was actually erm organised and financed by the contractors who were building the motorway . |
| 8 | The females who were played the reduced repertories turned out to build nests at a lower rate . |
| 9 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 10 | There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges . |
| 11 | The water bill also includes funding for several large-scale dam and water projects throughout the west , which forced the President to choose between the interests of his California supporters and those in other states who were urging the passage of the bill . |
| 12 | Hope those who were watching the game on BBC1 were as disgusted as I was with Englands performance . |
| 13 | A few Hearthwares who were stalking the corridors of the Manse backed away hurriedly when they met them , for fear of grubbing their highly burnished armour . |
| 14 | In fact holidays was the the theme taking by the elders who were taking the family service at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 15 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 16 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 17 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 18 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 19 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 20 | The local government review is being seen as long overdue by some of those who were affected the most by the last major changes eighteen years ago . |
| 21 | Large numbers of men were employed , too , in growing vegetables and grain for the army ; but it was not they who were to reap the harvest , for their crops and granaries were either captured by the Russians or burned . |
| 22 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 23 | The yellow chair , besides being brushstrokes and pigment , besides being a yellow chair , was one of twelve bought for a company of artists who were to inhabit the Yellow House , the white walls of which should blaze with sunflowers as the windows of Gothic cathedrals blazed with coloured light . |
| 24 | He was , however , appointed as one of the leaders of the stewards who were to control the DCAC 's first demonstration , which was to be held on 19 October : |
| 25 | Dr Bennett , a fellow of New College , Oxford , had accused Dr Runcie of leading a coterie of liberals who were weakening the Church 's main beliefs . |
| 26 | The tape recorder was used to send reports to churches and schools who were using the expedition to raise money for famine relief . |
| 27 | The Allies had found their way to Rome blocked there by Germans who were using the ancient Benedictine monastery as their base and flung a series of attacks against it . |
| 28 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
| 29 | Last month The Northern Echo uncovered a shady underworld of drug addicts who were using the streets of Darlington as a haven for their habit . |
| 30 | In Seoul , riot police battled with 4,000 students who were demanding the arrest of two former South Korean presidents , Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo . |