Example sentences of "they were [noun] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were expert in basic birth techniques and in the laying out of corpses . |
| 2 | It is no accident that many slums were built on marshes : Mosside in Manchester , the Bogside in Londonderry , and much of the East End of London , where the suffix ‘ ey ’ to many of the place-names tell us that they were islands in Saxon times : Hackney , Stepney , and , most notorious of all , Bermondsey , where , in the 1850s , the river Neckinger , ‘ the colour of strong green tea ’ , flowed round Jacob 's Island , which was used by Dickens as a setting for Oliver Twist , and was described by him as ‘ the filthiest , the strangest , the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London ’ . |
| 3 | They were slaves in Anglo-Saxon England and survived in Italy well into the nineteenth century , singing castrato roles in opera as well as in the Vatican Sistine choir . |
| 4 | Nearly a third of under 20 year old temporary workers were temporary workers because they were participants in special employment measures , and 29 per cent were still at school . |
| 5 | They were pilgrims in this world , aliens in the society of their pagan fellows , but they knew they were part of a vast community : ‘ this church which is now travelling on its journey , is joined to that heavenly church where we have the angels as our fellow-citizens ’ , said Augustine , faithfully echoing the conviction of all early Christians . |
| 6 | They were they were people in those days too you know . |