Example sentences of "[prep] they were [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |
| 2 | Sotheby 's followed the Schimmel collection with a very strong mixed-owner sale that featured an unusually high percentage of Roman marbles — word from the trade was that many of them were Basia Johnson 's . |
| 3 | In the middle of them were Mrs Phipps and Mrs Taylor , our neighbours , sitting on the step crying . |
| 4 | About three-quarters of them were day schools and the remainder boarding ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 17 ) . |
| 5 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 6 | Drakard , though , in his Stamford News of 17 November 1819 accused the sport 's antagonisers of hypocrisy , as many of them were fox hunters , suggesting their real motive was purely to destroy a working class tradition : |
| 7 | Several of them were fringe members who we have not been able to keep on to some of them especially in er in Little Hulton and Irlam |
| 8 | Most of them were Science Fiction or Fantasy . |
| 9 | Eight of them were grammar schools , nine were comprehensive and there was one middle school . |
| 10 | Amongst them were Henry Care ( a Presbyterian , and author of the Exclusionist periodical , the Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome ) , who became James 's chief propagandist in promoting the cause of religious toleration , and Sir William Williams , who became James 's solicitor-general ( and who was to lead the prosecution of the seven bishops in 1688 ) . |
| 11 | Behind them were Austin Currie , Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and David Green of Citizens for PR in the Irish Republic , and three Westminster Labour MPs , Russell Kerr , Ann Kerr and John Ryan , who had travelled directly from the Labour Party conference with Gerry Fitt . |
| 12 | Sharing the flat with them were Anne Bolton , who married and moved to Australia , Carolyn Pride , who later married brewer William Bartholomew and Virginia Pitman , who married Henry Clarke in the City . |
| 13 | The seats arranged round the three sides of the interior , were slatted benches like those on the cars and above them were picture frames carrying the Company 's advertisements and notices . |
| 14 | It is true that some members of the party were inclined to take a ‘ soft ’ line towards Germany : prominent among them were Philip Noel-Baker and Richard Stokes , both of them middle-class members of the party . |
| 15 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 16 | Among them were Renato Maiocchi , General Secretary of Italy 's Federation of Protestant Churches , Hans-Wolfgang Hessler , Chairperson of ERA-WACC and Director of the Protestant Association for Media Communication in Germany , and Bernard van Baalen of Grand Lancy , Switzerland . |
| 17 | Among them were Zak Smythe and one of the free speech people , both bands having once more turned up to perfect their statements . |
| 18 | Among them were Parsytec Computer GmbH and Parsys Ltd with their T9000-based supercomputers and Ektron Applied Imaging Inc with its Boss-9000 parallel processor . |
| 19 | Among them were Parsytec Computer GmbH and Parsys Ltd with their T9000-based supercomputers and Ektron Applied Imaging Inc with its Boss-9000 parallel processor . |
| 20 | Among them were Mr Reed , Nicholas Wells , who had put the issue together at County , and Martin Gibbs , head of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , County 's stockbroker at the time , although he has since retired . |
| 21 | Among them were Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailey , director-general of military intelligence , and the counter-insurgency experts , Sir Robert Thompson and Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer . |
| 22 | Among them were Josiah Wade , a radical Bristol tradesman , and John Prior Estlin , a Unitarian minister with whose religious opinions Coleridge 's own were beginning increasingly to coincide . |