Example sentences of "were [verb] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 2 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 5 | While these groups and individuals may not always have shared our analysis , they were asking the same questions about the link between government claims and reality in relation to job creation and training in West Belfast . |
| 6 | The others were doing the same jobs they had during peacetime : baker , steward , purser , electrician , storekeeper . |
| 7 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 8 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 9 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 10 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 11 | Data in brackets indicate the values of change that would be ‘ expected ’ if employment in all individual manufacturing industries were to undergo the same changes as in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 12 | Article 5(1) of Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) provided that the application of the principle of equal treatment with regard to working conditions , including the conditions relating to dismissal , meant that men and women were guaranteed the same conditions without discrimination on grounds of sex , and the term –dismissal' in that context included retirement in accordance with an employer 's policy . |