Example sentences of "[art] [adj] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 2 | This was a game which two could play , and the English were to raid the coast of Normandy several times between 1400 and 1410 . |
| 3 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 4 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 5 | Already , then , it might be seen that the French were digging the pit into which the US would eventually fall . |
| 6 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 7 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 8 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 9 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 10 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 11 | At the Potsdam Conference of Allied leaders , the Japanese were given the deadline of 3 August for surrender . |
| 12 | If , for instance , the loudspeaker on the left were playing the song of the female 's own species , while the one on the right played the song of some other species , the female turns to the left . |
| 13 | What the widow , divorcee or sorrowing woman fails to realize is that if the grieving were to stop the interest might diminish , or if intimacy were to develop to the point of involving responsibility , comfort would be withdrawn . |
| 14 | So now the children of the dispossessed were attacking the children of those who had brought such misery to their Palestinian parents . |
| 15 | The next morning orders came through that the able-bodied were to begin the trek to India and the rest get to Myitkyina to take the chance of a plane . |
| 16 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 17 | The two were given the VIP treatment after winning Newsline 's competition to find a name for the Telephone Service Unit . |