Example sentences of "[pers pn] were the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were the same age — twenty-four — had been born and brought up in Hong Kong , and gone to school together . |
| 32 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |