Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [verb] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Green Party , Scottish and Welsh Nationalist parties were also invited to contribute their policies , but declined . |
| 2 | Rich Americans , of course , whether healthy or ill — or more precisely their wives and daughters — made tracks for the centres of European culture , though by the end of our period the millionaires were already beginning to establish their pattern of summer residence in custom-built Xanadus along the stern coasts of New England . |
| 3 | Credit buyers were also asked to rate their satisfaction with the credit arrangement they had used on a five-point scale ( see Table 24 of Appendix I ) . |
| 4 | Buyers were also encouraged to make their presence felt by the easing of political tensions in Russia . |
| 5 | The participants were then asked to demonstrate their technique . |
| 6 | While most of the fliers were quietly attempting to raise their kites as high as possible into the heavens , some of the boys were engaged in battles with their neighbours . |
| 7 | Areas of true wilderness were maintained solely as hunting preserves for the ruling élite , whose sporting exploits were commonly used to illustrate their potency as rulers and conquerors ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Rugs , clothing , mielies , were tossed on top of the buses while the first load of passengers were still trying to reach their luggage . |
| 9 | Teachers were also asked to give their names so that non-respondents could be followed up . |
| 10 | Chinese interests were also forced to restructure their equity holdings as the government became more directly involved in the redistribution of national resources and enacted restrictive legislation such as the 1975 Industrial Co-ordination Act . |
| 11 | The liberals were equally determined to use their parliamentary power to prevent reaction : in masonic circles there seems even to have been talk of a republican dictatorship . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you know that unmarried Maltese girls were once advised to comb their hair by the light of the moon , to find themselves a husband ? |
| 13 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
| 14 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 15 | Since the stonemasons were usually allowed to create their own designs , they were also given the freedom to crack good jokes . |
| 16 | The philosophers were not allowed to produce their philosophy . |
| 17 | The attempts to improve the performances of nationalised industries were not allowed to run their course , because in the 1970s governments of both major parties used nationalised industries in order to achieve wider macroeconomic targets . |
| 18 | In the old days , Defries had read , when humankind was still stuck in one planetary system , when the Martians and the Cybermen came back , the soldiers were genetically manipulated to follow their leaders and implanted with intelligent chips that could be used to enforce military discipline . |
| 19 | Some parents were allowed to complete the voting forms for their children , and others were certainly allowed to tell their children what party to vote for . |
| 20 | During the interview , mothers and fathers were also asked to confirm their own names and dates of birth and about their own health and habits . |
| 21 | For in the real world the Tories were never expected to lose their immense majority in one go . |
| 22 | Thus the Romans were not allowed to sell their ancestral real property , and yet houses and land regularly changed hands through a system of legal fictions and collusive actions . |