Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] were [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | Beneath them were to be the fascist Legions , the militant branch of the League who were divided into active and passive sections of members . |
| 3 | Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day . |
| 4 | On the evidence of the Aristotle File he seemed — potentially , at least — a curse , yet if the reports on him were to be believed , he might yet prove the greatest asset the Seven possessed . |
| 5 | Readership was still small relative to the whole population , but among it were to be found most of those active in the leadership of TANU and other areas of African advancement . |