Example sentences of "they were [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kraak also showed that maps illustrating the values of a variable in 2D shaded polygons best formed a ‘ map-to-see ’ when they were displayed with the variable visualized in 3D . |
| 2 | They were displayed on the Eton flag and stamped on school documents . |
| 3 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 4 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 5 | They were scratching at the airlock . |
| 6 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 7 | Revealingly , its opening section was devoted to foreign affairs ; in all three Thatcher manifestos , including the one in 1983 following the Falklands war , they were relegated to the back , and domestic policy took pride of place . |
| 8 | Both say they were convicted on the basis of fabricated confessions . |
| 9 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 10 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 11 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 13 | They were maintained in a temperature controlled environment provided with a 12:12 hour light:dark cycle and given regular guinea pig food and tap water ad libitum . |
| 14 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 15 | They were seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 16 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 17 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 18 | The Sabbath meals , of course , were family occasions also , but they were invested with the day 's solemnity and holiness . |
| 19 | On the way they were disturbed by a lorry . |
| 20 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 21 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 22 | They were rejected by an outcry from within Britain and by the British Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 24 | They were fed on a diet of live baby brine shrimp and grindal worm twice a day and a large partial water change was done each week . |
| 25 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 26 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 27 | In January 1848 they were received by the shah , who was presented with copies of the Old and New Testaments and a translation of Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy ( 1823 ) by Alexander Keith [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | They were received by the group of villagers they joined with no comment other than a whispered bonsoir . |
| 29 | As far as wages were concerned the development officers collected support workers ' timesheets each week , ensured that they were received by the wages office , and then distributed pay cheques ( or cash ) to their workers . |
| 30 | They were received in the Minister 's private flat in one of the narrow streets close to the House of Commons . |