Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were quartered in a sumptuous villa next to the Roman baths and messed with their officers ( a notable departure from French Army custom ) at the best hotel in the town . |
| 2 | They were displayed with an almost subversive indifference to the impression made upon the spectator . |
| 3 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 4 | They were displayed on the Eton flag and stamped on school documents . |
| 5 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 6 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 7 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 8 | Revealingly , its opening section was devoted to foreign affairs ; in all three Thatcher manifestos , including the one in 1983 following the Falklands war , they were relegated to the back , and domestic policy took pride of place . |
| 9 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 10 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 11 | Both say they were convicted on the basis of fabricated confessions . |
| 12 | Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically , without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence , they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 13 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 14 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 15 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 17 | The Tadjik Communist Party central committee on March 3 expelled from the party Buri Karimov and Nur Tabarov , and on March 19 they were dismissed by the Tadjik Supreme Soviet as , respectively , a Deputy Chairman of the Tadjik Council of Ministers and Tadjik Minister of Culture , for having " compromised themselves " during nationalist unrest in the Tadjik capital , Dushanbe , in mid-February . |
| 18 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 19 | They were maintained in a temperature controlled environment provided with a 12:12 hour light:dark cycle and given regular guinea pig food and tap water ad libitum . |
| 20 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 21 | They were exploited by an economic system which was in 1880 increasingly characterized by capitalist organization , large-scale production for the market and specialization . |
| 22 | They were seated at a small table with a red checked cloth surmounted by a clean one of starched white linen , with two glass beakers , two knives and two forks , and a basket of the most delicious freshly baked bread . |
| 23 | They were seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 24 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 25 | They were seated round the long oak table , with the remains of supper still spread out . |
| 26 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 27 | They were dotted throughout the 19 villages in the area chosen by the film 's makers . |
| 28 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 29 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 30 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |