Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their pay was , however , increased when he loaned them to Madame Rasimi to work in Lyons and Bordeaux , and they were proud to be able to send almost ten shillings weekly to their mothers . |
| 2 | There they were able to be independent of the Iranian state authorities — a tradition that has continued since . |
| 3 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
| 4 | Some of the awkwardness in Anglo-American relations had been dispelled by a combination of circumstances ; James Byrnes had been replaced as US Secretary of State by the anglophile General George Marshall ; Britain , for her part , had supported the launch of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe ; and the Americans were beginning to appreciate that they were unlikely to be able to tame the malign hostility of the Soviet Union as Roosevelt had once hoped . |
| 5 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 6 | Well , two of these Barny offspring — they were lucky to be alive , for Mr and Mrs Barny were just about the most brutal parents any owl could be unfortunate enough to have — were paired with Paradise Park birds and remained behind . |
| 7 | They were glad to be free of the flatboat and the smell of death that had been with them ever since the battle . |
| 8 | In the 1970s the average family size of graduate women at the time of interview ( 1.53 ) was considerably lower than the fertility of women with no further education ( 2.04 ) ( Cartwright 1978 ) and they were likely to be childless . |
| 9 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 10 | Typical of the ambivalence of the anti-Puritan ethic in Hefner 's hands , they were supposed to be untouchable . |
| 11 | They were supposed to be muddy . |
| 12 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 13 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |