Example sentences of "[subord] they were [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jewel Lafontant , the United States co-ordinator for refugee affairs , said on March 16 that the United States would accept half of any new Vietnamese boat people fleeing to Hong Kong , as long as they were considered to be genuine refugees ; only 11 per cent of those as yet screened in the colony had been classified as such . |
| 32 | Things , then , as they were willed to be : |