Example sentences of "['s] [noun] were [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) .
2 The defendant was held not liable for breach of statutory duty when the plaintiff 's sheep were swept overboard when not in pens .
3 If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear .
4 Visegrad 's streets were deserted yesterday as Serb irregulars exchanged sporadic fire with the handful of Muslim gunmen still holed up in the town .
5 In C-1 , Brenda 's turns were constructed so as to be entirely in London English or entirely in Creole .
6 Indeed , on numerous occasions high inflation countries ' currencies were revalued rather than devalued .
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