Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 2 | Of course in conformity with ecclesiological principles , schools were expected to be in the Gothic style . |
| 3 | Islington , Southwark , Camden and Hounslow were thought to be in the bag . |
| 4 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 5 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 6 | Valuable though such concessions were felt to be in the short term , we concluded it was wrong to encourage prospecting in sensitive waters without an adequate understanding of the nature and level of the risks involved . |
| 7 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |
| 8 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 9 | These savings were thought to be of the order of £0.5 million at the most . |
| 10 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 11 | of the crew of a British fishing boat were required to be of British or other Community nationality , only extended to vessels fishing within British fishery limits because of the problems of enforcement outside United Kingdom jurisdiction . |
| 12 | Speaking at the launch of the report , the Inspectorate 's director and chief inspector , David Slater , said that recruitment had improved and that 300 new inspectors were expected to be in their posts by early next year . |
| 13 | By late July about 20 dissidents were known to be in detention , several ( including Matiba and Rubia ) under security legislation which allowed for detention without charge for up to 14 days or longer . |
| 14 | Samuel , Dorothy Perkins and C and J Clark Shoes were known to be among the stores which signed up . |
| 15 | In 1986 , 440 thousand lone parents were estimated to be in paid work including those receiving sb with part-time earnings . |
| 16 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 17 | These buckets were held to be of merchantable quality ( but see paragraph 7–22 below ) . |
| 18 | Efforts by Pakistan and Iran to broker a peace settlement with the mujaheddin on the basis of the UN plan were reported to be in progress as of mid-1991 . |
| 19 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk . |
| 21 | Plans to change the definition of homelessness to rooflessness were reported to be under consideration , but when the review body reported in November 1989 no changes in either the definition or the law were recommended . |
| 22 | Shop assistants in this period were expected to be of " respectable " appearance and speech . |
| 23 | But breaches of the injunction continued and the union officials were held to be in contempt , the union being fined £50,000 with sequestration of assets to follow , if needed . |
| 24 | Soon two-thirds of the activists of the Provisional IRA in Ulster were reported to be in prison either awaiting trial or convicted . |
| 25 | The two narrative conditions were expected to be of intermediate difficulty with the after-theme condition being easier than the no-theme . |
| 26 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 27 | In the event neither the manager nor the owners were held to be in breach of duty . |
| 28 | The bombings were thought to be in retaliation for the shooting by British soldiers in an undercover operation on Oct. 9 of IRA activists Desmond Grew and Martin McCaughey near Loughgall in south Armagh . |
| 29 | Lang insists that the planned reforms were designed to be in the best interests of local government . |
| 30 | The tyres on the locomotive 's driving wheels were found to be of different sizes after they had been reprofiled by a well-known company in South Wales . |