Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [to-vb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain , Greece , Ireland and Portugal were allowed to keep their controls until the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | On balance , however , it looks as though by May 1183 Henry II and Richard were beginning to lose their grip on the war . |
| 3 | Gentlemen who were early baronets of Scotland were authorised to charge their arms with a canton ( or escutcheon ) carrying the arms of the province of Nova Scotia — argent on a saltire azure an escutcheon of the Royal Amis of Scotland . |
| 4 | Earlier he and Ken Flach were forced to default their doubles quarter-final because of Flach 's ankle injury . |
| 5 | On Nov. 2 villagers at Kufr Rumman near Nabatiyeh were ordered to leave their homes after evacuation orders were allegedly issued from an Israeli position . |
| 6 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 7 | At the same time , however , Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain were threatening to exercise their veto on the question of European union if it meant increasing their own contributions to the EC budget . |
| 8 | Jordan and Israel were urged to solve their border issues . |
| 9 | Westerners in Bangkok were advised to keep their heads down for 48 hours . |
| 10 | The pillar itself gave several excellent pitches on sound granite , but on the second night on the pillar the wind was so strong that Venables and Renshaw were forced to pitch their tent inside a chimney , squeezed onto a jammed block . |
| 11 | Davies snapped the ball from the back of a ruck to send a drop goal sailing home true after 26 minutes but when Nial Malone equalised with a penalty two minutes later and then added a drop goal in the 32nd minute , it looked as if Oxford were going to turn their pressure into victory . |
| 12 | But they insisted Charles and Diana were attempting to overcome their problems . |
| 13 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 14 | The Duffer , who celebrated her 100th birthday last week in lavish style , also seems to think that CAPTAIN AMERICA were forced to change their name to C&A after Marvel Comics sued them , only to be injuncted by the clothes store and forced to change their name again . |
| 15 | Apocalypse was in the air , and in strict accordance with the traditions of this connected history of fears of British decline , the ghosts of Rome were summoned to make their judgement . |
| 16 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |