Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 2 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 3 | They survived to be the essential links between the king and the local communities , out of which grew the special tradition of English government in the later Middle Ages , the principle of ‘ self-government at the king 's command ’ . |
| 4 | These polls fully bore out my own impressions as an observer of the French campaign : ‘ No ’ voters were voting for democracy and for national independence ; they were voting against bureaucracy , against technocracy , against what they conceived to be the faulty policies of Brussels . |
| 5 | They saw what they took to be a wild-eyed drunk , well dressed and bleeding from a blow on the mouth . |
| 6 | Between the ideologues and monetarists of the New Right , and the revisionist Marxists of the New Left , defenders of what they took to be the post-1945 social order floundered unhappily . |
| 7 | They had a cosy assurance in the obvious existence of a divine architect for what they took to be an elegant and attractive world , neatly designed like one of their drawing-rooms . |
| 8 | Apparently Naud has discovered that there about ‘ 1700 semi-mounted ploughs sold in the UK ’ , presumably annually , and that they wanted to be a big part of that market . |
| 9 | The clergy had informed the people 's conscience on the basis of what they considered to be the essential religious interests of their flock . |