Example sentences of "they were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were displayed on the Eton flag and stamped on school documents . |
| 3 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 4 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 5 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 8 | Both say they were convicted on the basis of fabricated confessions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 16 | They were seated round the long oak table , with the remains of supper still spread out . |
| 17 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 18 | They were dotted throughout the 19 villages in the area chosen by the film 's makers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Sabbath meals , of course , were family occasions also , but they were invested with the day 's solemnity and holiness . |
| 21 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 22 | Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale . |
| 23 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 24 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 25 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 26 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 27 | As far as wages were concerned the development officers collected support workers ' timesheets each week , ensured that they were received by the wages office , and then distributed pay cheques ( or cash ) to their workers . |
| 28 | In early May they were received by the British Ambassador in Constantinople . |
| 29 | In January 1848 they were received by the shah , who was presented with copies of the Old and New Testaments and a translation of Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy ( 1823 ) by Alexander Keith [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | They were received by the group of villagers they joined with no comment other than a whispered bonsoir . |