Example sentences of "[det] were [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 2 | Equally , I suspect a good few were left with an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomachs . |
| 3 | Many of these were transferred to an internment camp at Long Kesh near Lisburn . |
| 4 | These were intended as an aid to discussion , a means of stimulating debate . |
| 5 | Indeed , that section is worded exceptionally widely and would empower the Secretary of State to undertake root-and-branch reforms of the whole process of transferring shares , whether or not these were listed on an exchange . |
| 6 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 7 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 8 | Both were escaping from an historicist notion of evolutionary development , traditional to their disciplines . |
| 9 | And , with its disintegration , both were driven to an increasing identification with German nationalism and the proposal for a merger of Austria and Germany . |