Example sentences of "[coord] they were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | or they were cast by the lost wax process from a model made of wax rods . |
| 2 | And they were supported by the British . |
| 3 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 4 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 5 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
| 6 | And they were stored in the back in the back shop store , you see ? |
| 7 | These are old , and they were made in the mind at a time of great fear . |
| 8 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 9 | The research messages had reached a wide audience of professionals in this way , and they were echoed in the language and recommendations of the White Paper . |
| 10 | The small lines at the corners were new , though , and they were echoed in the faint lines of tension etched around his eyes . |
| 11 | Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale . |
| 12 | Cambridge looked anything but promotion contenders and they were flattered by the final scoreline . |
| 13 | And they were rewarded with the prospect of a third round home tie against First Division West Ham United . |
| 14 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 15 | Then the sun burned on the water ahead and they were dazzled by the sudden brightness . |
| 16 | The wind whipped the words away and they were lost in the gale but someone must have heard the banging . |
| 17 | Delegates from fifteen of the thirty-three branches attended , and they were joined by the officers and all members of the executive committee . |
| 18 | And they were situated on the dock ? |
| 19 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 20 | At the Franz Joseph he was greeted with great style and they were led into the terrace restaurant , to a table with a magnificent view over the whole of the Hochhauser valley , once more covered in snow . |
| 21 | The first permanent companies of artillery , to replace the basically civilian gunners hired ad hoc when required , had been formed , on Marlborough 's advice , in 1716 , and in 1727 their number was increased to four and they were united as the Royal Regiment of Artillery . |
| 22 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 23 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 24 | About six other Cambridge graduates joined the firm with Sir Adrian and they were put under the protective wing of the head of the employment department , who guided their career progression . |
| 25 | The commons acted as a body in putting the charges against Latimer , Lyons and their associates , and they were tried before the lords in parliament . |
| 26 | [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ] |
| 27 | Only six out of sixty-two leading clubs paid their shareholders any dividend in the season 1908–9 and they were restricted by the FA from paying a dividend of more than 5 per cent . |
| 28 | Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti . |
| 29 | There were comparatively few incomers and they were dispersed among the native population ( estate building for incomers did not peak until 1976 , and none existed before 1974 ) . |
| 30 | Eventually , the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car . |