Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [pron] were be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Mr John Smith , Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer , emerging as the clear favourite to succeed Mr Kinnock , there were protests from senior Labour MPs about the way they were being rushed into choosing a new leader . |
| 2 | Potatoes were enjoying an unprecedented popularity amongst all classes of society ; in the houses of the aristocracy they were being marinaded in champagne , poached in wine and decorated with truffles . |
| 3 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 4 | In the early and middle part of the decade they were being urged to leave the workforce as soon as possible , as a way of coping with high unemployment and large numbers of school leavers . |
| 5 | Shades of Ireland , he thought : Colonel Smith and his power games that kept his minions in ignorance of the danger they were being manipulated into facing . |
| 6 | Mr Bean had bales of straw in the truck which were being unloaded , and hay and sacks of food , and buckets . |
| 7 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 8 | This caused the peasantry to revolt in the belief they were being robbed of 11 days wages and that they would die that much sooner . |
| 9 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |