Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] were [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
| 2 | In June 1991 they were acquitted on all charges and proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 were discontinued . |
| 3 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 4 | To this day many are convinced they were kept in separate dining rooms . |
| 5 | Beards also signified an association with traditional Greek culture , and as such they were worn by some later Macedonian kings and philhellene Romans . |
| 6 | From 1940 they were joined by thousands of refugees who were keen to serve in some capacity , however lowly , and equally keen to escape internment . |
| 7 | Although independent they were linked to each other . |
| 8 | And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one . |
| 9 | When things go wrong we tend to assume that the police have offended , rather than that they were defeated by real cognitive problems . |
| 10 | Before the war they were split between two empires : Ottoman and Persian After 1925 they were split between four states : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria ( there are also a few Kurds in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 11 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 12 | First they were pursued by Iraqi government agents , then war broke out and they are carpet bombed in Iraq , and once more they are being pursued , but this time by the British government . |
| 13 | On the 13th we were warned for slow play . |
| 14 | Frostbite forced them to abandon the expedition.In 1988 and 1989 they were defeated by freak weather conditions . |
| 15 | In 1989 they were charged with indictable offences relating to the escape . |
| 16 | By 1974 they were used in 56 per cent of guilty cases for adult males but subsequently their proportionate use declined and by 1988 the figure was 42 per cent . |
| 17 | One minute we were riding our horses , the next we were surrounded by five villains intent on murder . |