Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] were [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward . |
| 2 | Most of them were shot at close range . |
| 3 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 4 | Since all of them were built in traditional style , it was difficult to tell which were old and which new . |
| 5 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 6 | Approximately 600 policemen , mostly Tamils , were apparently abducted and according to unconfirmed reports over 100 of them were massacred in Amparai district on June 12 . |
| 7 | Most of them were named after mythological characters , though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar . |
| 8 | Some of them were dressed in Ottoman regalia or Arab dress or even French cavalry uniform , serious-looking young men who — in the later pictures — were carrying Lee-Enfield service rifles . |
| 9 | There were very large claims from members of the Territorial Army for loss of earnings and most of them were met in full . |
| 10 | Few of them were caused by melancholy to sit staring slackly into the middle distance . |
| 11 | My failure to identify them is doubly frustrating because of the likelihood that most of them were copied from published anthologies . |
| 12 | Many of them were chosen by public meeting and Cropper and Sturge were prominent in encouraging organisation for the convention in the north and the West Country . |
| 13 | The Cathedral at Angers is a good example of the massive , domical building of Anjou , though parts of it were rebuilt in Gothic times . |
| 14 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 15 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 16 | Although the most recent data available to us were collected in early 1978 , just before the survey members reached the age of 32 in March 1978 , their analysis should remain relevant in the 1980s in the light of the stagnation in the relative pay of men and women since then . |