Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |
| 2 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 3 | Argument before the House of Lords in B's appeal and the judgments were confined to the certified question . |
| 4 | However , in its reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) , which was lodged after the judgments were delivered , the Commission discussed the compatibility of the nationality requirements with Community law also in the light of those judgments , that is to say in relation to the aims of the quota system . |
| 5 | The judgments were very short and appear to have been extempore . |
| 6 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 7 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 8 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 9 | The most likely explanation for the difference is the context in which the judgments were made , clearly the normality of any individual film will depend on the types of situation that are seen with it . |
| 10 | It would need to be evident that the activities were integrated into the curriculum of the school/college , and that , for the company , the partnership was seen as essential to the planning process , like the development of a new service or product . |
| 11 | In 1971 , following a period when the activities were managed as a trading fund , British Nuclear Fuels was created as a separate publicly-owned company to manufacture and reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 12 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 13 | Very early on Sunday morning , before 9 o'clock in fact , Trevor Ward must have known that the portents were not good . |
| 14 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 15 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 16 | Three days later , on 23rd. , the Stukas returned to the skies over Malta , and on this occasion the defences were able to engage them without undue fighter interference , although Plt.Off . |
| 17 | But the Lancastrian army proved too powerful , and after a brave fight the defences were breached . |
| 18 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 19 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 20 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 21 | These defences seldom attempted to enclose the total area of occupation , partly because of its pre-existing shape and extent , and partly because the defences were designed to perform a variety of different functions , many of which fell in the official sphere . |
| 22 | The pursuer pleaded that the defences were irrelevant and that decree should be granted as craved . |
| 23 | Hans Hass on how the continents were formed . |
| 24 | This , Wegener explained , was because the continents were not fixed , but drifted like ships on the earth 's surface . |
| 25 | But it is worth remembering that early in Earth 's history the continents were much smaller than they are now . |
| 26 | The continents were not stationary , but drifted slowly over the earth 's surface , driven by the convection currents moving deep in the earth 's mantle . |
| 27 | Wallace shared Darwin 's view that the continents were essentially permanent but realized that other geological changes might have affected the possibility of overland migrations . |
| 28 | The majority of the models assumed that the positions of the continents were fixed and that the ocean basins were ancient features . |
| 29 | In Britain the anti-Darwinians were unable to prevent the takeover of the scientific community by Huxley and the liberal Darwinians , but elsewhere the opposition was better organized . |
| 30 | Eventually the police certificate was accepted , the forms were filled and stamped , and placed in a tray marked ‘ out ’ . |