Example sentences of "[was/were] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ? |
| 2 | The most important policy-related questions concern the impact of potential credit market constraints : were they binding in the UK in the s and s ? |
| 3 | Never before were they faced with the threat of losing substantial numbers of accounts . |
| 4 | For instance , how widely were they accepted as the legitimate kings of France ? |
| 5 | Nor were they isolated by the Index from European scholarship . |
| 6 | Where were they positioned on the dock ? |
| 7 | Were they trading round the dock area ? |
| 8 | Were they watched by the Syrian intelligence service ? |
| 9 | Were they mesmerised by the London media ? |
| 10 | The Young Conservatives were not attempting to create or preserve , a distinct ideological view , nor were they battling with the ideas of ordinary common sense . |
| 11 | Were they left on the shop counter for the client to take , distributed on the street or pasted up on to street notice-boards ? |
| 12 | Were they going in the car ? |
| 13 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 14 | Nor were they informed of the outcome of any conference that might have been held . |
| 15 | But were they talking about the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars ? |
| 16 | Were they talking about the increasing industrialization of the times ? |
| 17 | Were they talking about the first steamship crossing the Atlantic ? |
| 18 | Were they talking about the slave trade or the Congress of Vienna ? |
| 19 | Whatever it was they went into the sea for , it was found way down in its ice-cold black depths . |