Example sentences of "they were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral faculty needed to govern the sexual instinct , organizing it on ‘ broad , well-marked mental foundations ’ .30 Chastity , continence and self-control were the highest forms of sexual development because they were regulated by reason and a knowledge of the providential laws of human nature . |
| 2 | Erm pretty little thing , the er boxes are very standard er in design , they 're they were varying in size , but erm the er sort of double hipped roof , the finials erm the angled corners , of the windows erm the er er the rails erm and the er sort of platform there , er very very standard er all over the place . |
| 3 | They were convicted of rape , whilst Morgan was convicted of aiding and abetting . |
| 4 | Both chamberlain and clerk accepted it without question when they were dismissed from attendance . |
| 5 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 6 | They were intended for recreation rather than instruction and supplied by A. Gardner , a bookseller in Paisley , who seems to have had a free hand in their selection , Coats dictating the general policy . |
| 7 | In sum , I do not think that the practical difficulties arising from a limited relaxation of the rule are sufficient to outweigh the basic need for the courts to give effect to the words enacted by Parliament in the sense that they were intended by Parliament to bear . |
| 8 | And people strove to emulate their creation , while telling themselves they were striving for purity as possessed by the entity , or entities , that had created them . |
| 9 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 10 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 11 | It is understood that they were questioned in connection with threats to firebomb bookshops . |
| 12 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 13 | Whilst at one time the personal characteristics of children , and the circumstances in which they were received into care , set them apart from other children not admitted into care , the norms of family life for children inside and outside of public care could no longer be regarded as so different from each other . |
| 14 | She waited until tea time , and listened in silence while Mrs Maugham recounted her adventures with Mrs Hanney to the rest of the family : they were received in silence by Alan , Arthur and her father , who did not waste their speech . |
| 15 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 16 | They were based on textbook questions , some almost as printed , but slightly altered to make political points . |
| 17 | The training packs were finally despatched in December and because they were based on information that had not yet been circulated , they served an information as well as training need . |
| 18 | They were based on respect . |
| 19 | As the assays might even be affected by the presence of small amounts of proteases , phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride to a final concentration of 2 mM ( Sigma Chemical , St Louis ) was added to all samples before they were thawed on ice and analysed . |
| 20 | Macaulay has vividly described how huge crowds knelt to receive the Bishops ' blessings on their way to the Tower , and how when they were acquitted of sedition by a jury a week later even the King 's troops cheered . |
| 21 | The jury were satisfied and they were sentenced to hanging . |
| 22 | The evidence against them was inconclusive but they were sentenced to death . |
| 23 | How much more easily they were swayed by prestige than by arguments ! |
| 24 | Dado and picture rails can be tricky to remove without seriously damaging the plaster — it all depends on whether they were fixed in place before the walls were plastered or afterwards . |
| 25 | Nearly 3,000 cans of meat , originally imported as food aid from Czechoslovakia , were buried by the state authorities after scientific tests discovered that they were contaminated with radioactivity . |
| 26 | ‘ But I do know they were killed in retaliation for the attack on the base camp . |
| 27 | Domovoi would cheerfully undertake household chores while the family slept , if they were treated with respect and gratitude . |
| 28 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 29 | They were treated with sulphasalazine . |
| 30 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |