Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] were [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of its members were experienced professional administrators . |
| 2 | Although no details of its terms were made available , officials declared that it would form the basis for future formal bilateral links , which had been put into question after the collapse of the 1982 Confederation of Senegambia in September 1989 [ see pp. 37062 ; 37801 ] . |
| 3 | The mixture of adulation and censure with which seamen were regarded continued to provide the same rich harvest for the sentimental and the censorious . |
| 4 | Incentives for the private sector included a five-year plan under which companies were promised gradual income tax reductions amounting to 11-15 percentage points . |
| 5 | Many of the courses presented were thoroughly and lovingly prepared by lecturers from the polytechnics who fought hard at meetings with the officers of the CNAA and its panels to ensure that the school-centred elements in their courses were given due emphasis . |
| 6 | Under President Islam Karimov , the government seems intent on returning to the ways of the Soviet Union , or to even worse models in the country 's more distant past : the emirs of Bukhara , whose lands are now part of Uzbekistan , once maintained a minaret of death , from which prisoners were flung alive on market days . |
| 7 | As designed by architect Thomas Jeckyll for the London dining room of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland , the 20 x 32-foot compartment was lined with sixteenth-century leather wall hangings , and ornamented with walnut wainscotting and trellises on whose shelves were displayed blue-and-white Chinese ceramics . |
| 8 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |