Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had engaged soldiers for a year , but had been deprived by the truce of most of the ransoms which were to pay the troops ' wages for the second half of the year . |
| 2 | In fact it was the sediment particles attached to the shells which were producing the TL . |
| 3 | The tape recorder was used to send reports to churches and schools who were using the expedition to raise money for famine relief . |
| 4 | Raiding was now growing apace with Lord Mountbatten 's wish for ‘ a raid every fortnight ’ in addition to the smaller raids of the SBS and other units who were joining the ranks of the commandos . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He revealed this to a group of Irish journalists who were visiting the Zionist Terror State . |
| 7 | Subjects who were asked the questions when under hypnosis made significantly more errors in their subsequent descriptions of events . |
| 8 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 9 | Andrea Palladio ( 1518–1580 ) the Italian architect , was revered and studied by English architects , who built adaptations of Italian palaces in England , but by the end of the century it was the Adam brothers who were having the greatest influence . |
| 10 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 11 | Slate we wanted to produce we want , you know if there a lot a bit of waste going over the tip , we were n't so much worried bout the waste , cos we was on the bonus we were making the slates and that . |
| 12 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 13 | By 1987 , 57 local authorities were requested to submit Inner Area Programmes which were to outline the objectives of Urban Programme funding , and to indicate how other funding programmes dovetailed into Urban Programme activities ( DoE , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 15 | There were , of course , other forces at work which were driving the subject peoples to oppose their alien overlords . |
| 16 | On the contrary , none of the nations wanted war , and ‘ ever new progressive and democratic forces ’ had appeared in the capitalist countries which were strengthening the common struggle for peace . |
| 17 | And while the hierarchy of the Roman Church dictated the texts which were to become the canonical New Testament , the monasteries in Egypt embraced a much more diverse body of teaching , exemplified by the Gospel of Thomas and by the other texts found at Nag Hammadi . |
| 18 | It was in cities such as Rome , Venice , Florence and Verona that the Renaissance started — the re-awakening of the arts , new directions in painting and architecture — movements which were to span the continents and leave a legacy of culture unequalled anywhere in the world . |
| 19 | In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War . |
| 20 | During 1905 , work was commenced on the various lines which were to form the South Metropolitan system , starting first on the Selby Road ‘ Robin Hood ’ Penge High Street section , then the Mitcham Light Railways . |
| 21 | There were rumours that a team from the University of East Anglia who were researching the acidity of the Cairngorm snow pack had run into difficulty in getting their work published because CEGB staff were used as anonymous ‘ referees ’ to vet papers submitted to several scientific journals . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By the late 1980s no African government could afford to neglect the significance of the sector for the employment of the hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school leavers who were joining the labour market each year , and most were making policy statements which indicated some support for it . |
| 24 | He spent a great deal of time in the yard below with the carpenters and masons who were making the pageant cart for the coronation procession . |
| 25 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 26 | But there was n't a Randall now , only a lot of mildly hostile folk who were blocking the way , making running impossible . |
| 27 | I decided to delay informing him of my visit to the Orne and speaking to the Artillerymen who were sending the shells over our heads . |
| 28 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |