Example sentences of "[prep] they [was/were] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wondered is any of them were were going to do a better job than |
| 2 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 3 | Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce , an irrelevance . |
| 4 | Most of them were being scraped from the ceiling . ’ |
| 5 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 6 | Rumours spread amongst the Serbs that a massive punitive expedition against them was being prepared . |
| 7 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |