Example sentences of "of they [verb] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right-offs should really be totally destroyed by insurance companies , but a lot of them end being bought for repair . ’ |
| 2 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 3 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 4 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 5 | So many of them had been trained by her and trusted her friendship and judgements . |
| 6 | None of them had been trained in covert operations other than when dealing with criminals . |
| 7 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 8 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 9 | Three of them had been detained by UNIFIL , but the other three had seized the 14 hostages . |
| 10 | There were yellow sodium lights down here , but most of them had been broken by kids throwing stones . |
| 11 | Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium . |
| 12 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 13 | None of them had been treated before admission to hospital , and none had any other medical disorders . |
| 14 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 15 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |
| 16 | Although several of them had been made by Luke himself , some of the others featured the voice that had caused Folly so much unnecessary grief . |
| 17 | The landed purchases had cost £13,855 and some 90 per cent of them had been made after 1420 . |
| 18 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 19 | The prior of the Austin canons of Launde , in Leicestershire , followed these into captivity , and shortly all of them had been put to death for treason . |
| 20 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 21 | This was a potentially decisive arm in warfare , and some 50 of them had been transported to France in the greatest secrecy . |
| 22 | They were withdrawn almost immediately , but not before one of them had been sold to an unkown customer . |
| 23 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 24 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 25 | Martinho had had to do some quick talking but none of them had been executed on the spot . |
| 26 | The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface . |
| 27 | There was a vacancy for a permanent inspector , for one of them had been promoted to be solicitor of customs , and Robert Fullerton was considered satisfactory by the customs commissioners . |
| 28 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 29 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 30 | Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover . |