Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession . |
| 2 | They recognised that they were achieving the three ‘ S ’ factors — stamina , suppleness and strength . |
| 3 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 4 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 5 | They were offered the three alternative thresholds taken from the Institute 's recent consultative document and only 18% opted for the VAT registration limit ( turnover £36,600 ) ; 47% were in favour of the VAT cash accounting limit , and 35% opted for the EC small companies definition . |