Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls were , at the time , seriously underrepresented in higher education as , yet again , were the children of the working classes : only 4 per cent of the skilled manual classes , against 45 per cent of the higher professional . |
| 2 | Then there were the children , Gtudu and Krotho , my cousins , and my young brother Klogo . ’ |
| 3 | John was taking her for granted , so were the children . |
| 4 | For her , there were the children growing up , for both of us there was work , and for me that Egypt for which many of us who have known it feel a perpetual nostalgia . |
| 5 | These were the children from whose statements the allegations had developed against the four families . |
| 6 | In this war amongst the teacups , the worst sufferers were the children . |
| 7 | Special schools existed in all local authorities but rarely were the children who attended given the opportunity to share everyday experiences with their more fortunate contemporaries . |
| 8 | Yet , for me , his greatest creative gifts were used to influence so many Yorkshire teachers who , because of him were changed as were the children they taught . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the parents of the 1920s were the children of the 1900s and the inhibitions of that more rigid decade were carried over into their parenthood . |
| 10 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 11 | What were the children doing in the programme ? |
| 12 | When the boat was under way she looked back and there were the children running in the dunes , waving to her like children anywhere . |
| 13 | There followed a short time for recreation , which Beth enjoyed with Cissie and Richard ; then there was the mending to do , and the tea to prepare ; afterwards , there were the children to wash and bed . |
| 14 | And and were the children all in the house . |
| 15 | Yet whatever common sense suggested or arithmetic dictated , I half-believed these were the children of the women Rosa had tried so hard to have live up to her Spartacist ideals . |
| 16 | Mm , how we how were the children transported ? |
| 17 | We were the children of Marcuse , Marx and Mao . |
| 18 | On Feb. 2 , 1990 , Gene McNary , the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization , announced a new policy to prevent the deportation of as many as 100,000 illegal aliens who were the children and spouses of newly legalized immigrants . |
| 19 | In 1930 one quarter of the people were of foreign birth , and an additional 40 per cent were the children of foreign parents . |
| 20 | In fact , Joseph , Benjamin and Mary were the children of Joseph 's first marriage ( in 1696 to Margaret Bower ) and they had each been provided for upon their marriage . |
| 21 | Three of his surviving sons — or at least of those whom he acknowledged as his — were the children of Ingund ; the fourth , Chilperic , was the child of Ingund 's sister , Aregund . |
| 22 | Why were the children allowed on to the open sea ? |
| 23 | How old were the children ? |
| 24 | There were no children playing , no neighbours talking , and the whole place had the deserted air of an American neighbourhood on Thanksgiving Day . |
| 25 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 26 | She had married at seventeen and was busy throwing all her efforts into the hotel since there were no children . |
| 27 | But Carteret 's wife , who frequented health spas , could not endure to live with him or he with her : there were no children . |
| 28 | He sometimes thought it would be pleasant to lie in bed with his wife on Sunday mornings , now that there were no children to interrupt them , but Donna reckoned they should be through with all that kind of stupidity , so he was resigned to the sporadic consolation of his Métis up north . |
| 29 | There were no children of either marriage . |
| 30 | There were no children . |