Example sentences of "the defendants ' [noun] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants ' actions were not detrimental to road safety and were exceptional cases as set out under article 11 of AETR , |
| 2 | The defendants ' case was not entirely met , however , by the interpretation of ‘ rent reserved ’ as meaning the rent agreed and not the rent actually payable . |
| 3 | The defendants ' conduct was not unconscionable , nor an interference with any legal or equitable right of the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 5 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |