Example sentences of "[det] were [verb] [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was students demonstrating , as a result of which a number of them were arrested and I later learnt that a few were sentenced to be flogged . |
| 2 | These were expected to be resolved by 1992 , when a review of the CER was due . |
| 3 | The morning was taken up with sales presentations , but all were itching to be allowed out on the water . |
| 4 | All were ordered to be held without bail . |
| 5 | By mid-February only 47 thrifts had been closed or sold , another 300 were under the management of the Resolution Trust Corporation ( RTC ) and 200 more were expected to be taken over soon . |
| 6 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 7 | Since both were deemed to be elected with the same quota of 8,585 votes reality was replaced by fiction . |
| 8 | Both were expected to be admitted by the General Assembly at the beginning of its annual session in New York on Sept. 17 . |