Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 2 | Do not let tax issues drive the deal -eg British & Commonwealth loan notes may have deferred CGT but they were ultimately a disaster for vendors who took them . |
| 3 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 4 | Rather , they were probably the consequence of the expectations of the experimenters — the so-called " experimenter effect " . |
| 5 | They were like little nets : they were exactly the shape of a horse 's ears : he pulled them down over the ears , and they each had a red or blue tassel hanging on them . |
| 6 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 7 | Such men would inevitably develop links with Gloucester ( Milewater was to die in his service at Barnet ) , but they were primarily the king 's servants rather than the duke 's . |
| 8 | Such men would inevitably develop links with Gloucester ( Milewater was to die in his service at Barnet ) , but they were primarily the king 's servants rather than the duke 's . |
| 9 | It is not clear if there were particular economic motives for these killings , or if they were simply a matter of xenophobia . |
| 10 | They were barely a yard apart now . |
| 11 | The sudden motion brought her forward a step , so that suddenly they were barely a breath apart . |
| 12 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 13 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 14 | They were clearly a family treasure . |
| 15 | Many judicial rights were more trouble than they were worth , but , burdensome or trivial , they were nevertheless a foundation of aristocratic influence ; in half the villages and towns as mayor , councillor , or judge , the lord or his representative stood between the subject and his king . |
| 16 | They were largely the work or anonymous bureaucrats . |
| 17 | Nothing is known of them outside the Bible , but they were evidently a race of Goliaths . |
| 18 | They were even an improvement on the normal spiral stairs supplied by other manufacturers , some of which made an uncomfortably tight spiral . |
| 19 | The potential to encourage lifestyle changes that would make retailing more environmentally sustainable are more limited than they were just a decade ago . |
| 20 | Um Thomas Carlisle um wen was very much impressed by the work of people like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were just a bit before him and he actually went and met Coleridge . |
| 21 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 22 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 23 | Initially the reaction of many to Take That was that they were just a bunch of pretty boys with no talent . |
| 24 | They were just the sort of purchasers on whom peasants relied . |
| 25 | They were also a response to demands for a form of participation . |
| 26 | But they were also a guarantee . |
| 27 | they were also a bit sluggish at first . |
| 28 | They were also a symbol of hope as they lit the fire , the signal sent out to get rescue . |
| 29 | To some extent they were also a confirmation . |
| 30 | To some extent they were also a confirmation . |