Example sentences of "were [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers . |
| 2 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 3 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 4 | Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch . |
| 5 | In the previous chapter a distinction was made between the attitudinal function of intonation and several other functions that were given the collective names of syntagmatic functions . |
| 6 | They had made enquiries of someone in the village , Melchbourne , but were given the wrong directions , through ignorance or malice . |
| 7 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 8 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 9 | One wonders if our worthy Bishop Russel were to see the sporting activities taking place today especially in the Holy weeks and time spent in the worship of television what punishments he would hand out . |
| 10 | He must of done , cos that 's what they were using , they were using the Hebrew scriptures to , to quote on were n't they ? |
| 11 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 12 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 13 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 14 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 15 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 16 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |
| 17 | The printer was careless , George Burnett a forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant , and all the time Sara 's groans of pain were announcing the early stages of a difficult pregnancy . |
| 18 | To the natural hazards of intermittent drainage , alternate floods and droughts , and infertile , stony soil were added the human obstacles of antiquated systems of land tenure , primitive methods of farming , neglect of welfare services , poor communication and exploitation by moneylenders and merchants . |
| 19 | Since the cameras were installed the outrageous stunts pulled by don't-care drivers have amazed police . |
| 20 | He lived for racing , and he , Fred Archer , and George Fordham [ qq.v. ] were considered the finest jockeys of their time . |
| 21 | Serb forces were considered the main culprits , although Croats and Moslems were not exempted from criticism . |
| 22 | Killion and Kimberley were keeping the other Germans honest . |
| 23 | It was Salah Khalaf no less , one of the PLO 's leading strategists , who announced in May 1976 — when the Palestinians were climbing the eastern flanks of Sannine to attack the Christians in their historic mountain defences — that the road to Palestine should pass through ‘ Uyun Al-Siman , Aintura and even Jounieh itself to prevent any further threat to the Palestinian presence in Lebanon ’ . |
| 24 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 25 | There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges . |
| 26 | Men and horses were decorated with green , yellow and red silks and shields covered with gold and silverwork ; and round the horses ' necks were hung the bloodstained cloaks and trophies of the men each rider had killed . |
| 27 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 28 | They were to create the Indian diasporas of Guyana and Trinidad , of the Indian Ocean islands and the Pacific , and the smaller Chinese colonies in Cuba , Peru and the British Caribbean . |
| 29 | No sooner had Courtaulds read the comments by our Metro 's previous keeper , Jill Stanton — that the material had developed ‘ bobbly sweater syndrome ’ ( 25 July ) than they were inspecting the offending objects with microscopes and pronouncing themselves shocked and baffled . |
| 30 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |