Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a hot day but the valley was all bush apart from some enormous landslips , which we found were frozen underneath , like walking on a glacier . |
| 32 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 33 | These duties were also listed by the assistants as the ones which they felt were most helpful both to the child and the teacher and were also the ones which they enjoyed most and felt most competent in completing . |
| 34 | Some claimed that the powers which they tapped were either from God or from their own subconscious mind . |
| 35 | Mum and Dad were over here for a holiday a while ago and they went to the Cotswolds which they said were beautiful . |
| 36 | Demonstrators held Daio responsible for the country 's economic difficulties which they said were a direct result of the structural adjustment programme Daio had agreed with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 37 | Opposition MPs claimed that the move was just another way of ‘ putting the boot in ’ to the unions , which they said were loathed and detested by the Government . |
| 38 | The swamps through which they waddled were thick with great horsetail and clubmoss trees . |
| 39 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 40 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 41 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 42 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 43 | The fact that the rights which they exploited were only exercisable overseas was irrelevant in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights by the sub-licensee . |
| 44 | Japan and Hong Kong called on July 17-19 for stricter control of anti-dumping measures , which they claimed were sometimes being applied in violation of normal price competition procedures . |
| 45 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 46 | On Oct. 31 Israeli troops and the SLA shelled a number of villages east of Sidon , in the area of Nabatiyeh and along the Iqlim el Toufah ridge , which they claimed were Hezbollah bases . |
| 47 | [ The Faroese has earlier appealed to Greenpeace — which had strongly campaigned against the islanders ' traditional whale-hunt — for help in countering pollution which they claimed were making the whales inedible — see ED 49/50 . ] |
| 48 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 49 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 50 | While the Poles were largely indifferent to the internal problems of the city — which they reasoned were the result of German agitation and would never have arisen if the Versailles politicians had made some more workable arrangement — they were very sensitive to any disturbance in their trade through the Corridor and the Baltic ports . |
| 51 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 52 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 53 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 54 | Branson had prepared a dossier of allegations which he says were ‘ more suitable for an episode of Dick Tracy than for the airline industry ’ . |
| 55 | The consultancy prospered , but some chemical processes which he developed were not successful commercially . |
| 56 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 57 | As he compared the ‘ full rich life ’ of the old back-street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ‘ canned entertainment and packeted provision ’ of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart-throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ‘ sex in shiny packets ’ literature and the cacophony of juke-boxes and ‘ nickelodeons ’ . |
| 58 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 59 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 60 | He always carried a briefcase bulging with documents which he said were incriminating and were usually irrelevant to whatever accusations he was making . |