Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At harvest feasts the distinctions between the farmer and the labourers whom he hired were relaxed . |
| 2 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 3 | These therefore were the formations which it had been ruled were eligible for repatriation , and these correspond directly to the four remaining groups of the original six the " Ataman Group " referring to Domanov 's Cossacks , which included two Atamans , Domanov and Krasnov ; von Pannwitz 's 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps ; the " Res Units of Lt Gen Shkuro " , meaning Shkuro 's Cossack Training Unit ; and the " Caucasians , incl Mussulmen " , including Georgian and other Christians and Moslems from Azerbaidjan . |
| 4 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 5 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 6 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 7 | Once in the house , he carved himself a slice of meat from an ancient joint , put it on a slice of bread , and settled down at his desk with a sigh of pleasure , preparing to continue work on the Gaelic Dictionary on Historical Principles which he had been occupied with now for nearly forty years . |
| 8 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 9 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |
| 10 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 11 | Would one find controlled authorities rationally closing the hospitals which they had been told were least fit to serve for the future — for instance on the grounds of extreme remoteness to districts served or lack of viability in terms of the relative decline of the resident population — and thus cases of rule book judgements ? |
| 12 | Under his tutelage , the Indians began to demand the rights over their lands which they had been guaranteed by Brazil 's Constitution . |
| 13 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |