Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] were [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | William and Harry were Diana 's choices while her husband 's preferences were used in their children 's middle names . |
| 2 | Erm , my Lord the defendant 's solicitors were told in correspondence that we would be calling a conveyancing expert . |
| 3 | Twenty of Ehret 's illustrations were included in the sumptuous Hortus Cliffortanianus ( 1738 ) . |
| 4 | He said the board 's meetings were held in secret and only two of the non-executive board members lived in the Cleveland area . |
| 5 | Lautro 's rules were revised in February 1992 . |
| 6 | ProActive 's products were developed in collaboration with Mohr general partner , William Davidow . |
| 7 | On most occasions the Committee 's views were sustained in the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | The hoax devices discovered close to Seafield House and BP Expro 's offices were destroyed in controlled explosions by army bomb disposal experts , using remote controlled vehicles . |
| 9 | In effect , therefore , Gloucester 's offices were concentrated in the east of Lancashire , where they formed an extension of his West Riding interests , and elsewhere he yielded place to the Stanleys . |
| 10 | In effect , therefore , Gloucester 's offices were concentrated in the east of Lancashire , where they formed an extension of his West Riding interests , and elsewhere he yielded place to the Stanleys . |
| 11 | The phone was disconnected and the family 's heads were put in pillowcases . |
| 12 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 13 | Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers . |
| 14 | As a nationally ‘ Approved Association ’ under the 1921 Act , the WEA 's Districts were recognised in the 1924 Regulations as ‘ Responsible Bodies ’ because they organised , controlled and provided courses and classes , as did the universities . |
| 15 | For little Adam 's eyes were damaged in the battle to save his life , after he was born more than three months prematurely . |
| 16 | The written judgment said Daniel Angeli 's pictures were taken in ‘ surreptitious , indelicate and disloyal conditions ’ and encroached on part of the duchess and Bryan 's ‘ intimate private lives ’ . |
| 17 | Since Nepal 's borders were opened in the 1950s Hillary has noticed how attitudes among the Sherpas has changed . |
| 18 | Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign . |
| 19 | Even though the official ideology of the SNP posited a technocratic non-class Scottish national politics ( Hyslop , 1979 ) , many of the party 's supporters were reckoning in terms of cutting adrift from Tory England ; settling accounts with the ‘ Tartan Tories ’ could come later . |
| 20 | 1849 the women were moved to the manor house at Dalston , a few miles to the north , but the institution 's functions were subsumed in those of other bodies . |
| 21 | Tom and Faye 's parents were living in London for a year , and most of Bill 's family lived in Cairns , so there was to be no Russell or Hamilton family Christmas this year . |
| 22 | Müller 's lectures were followed in 1879 by those of Peter Renouf , originally from Guernsey , an associate of Newman , an Inspector of Schools and an Egyptologist ; and then in 1880 by Ernest Renan 's , coming nearer to home with an investigation of the influence of Rome on Christianity and the development of the Catholic Church . |
| 23 | Just one quarter of Britain 's robots were made in the UK ; 37 per cent came from the rest of Europe while 24 per cent and 14 per cent owe their origins to the US and Japan . |
| 24 | In both 1978 and 1986 the Library Association 's statements were made in response to censorship in a number of public libraries , largely instigated by local authorities ; and the appeal was directed to the local authorities . |
| 25 | In the realm of high culture , T. S. Eliot 's writings were drenched in the same anxieties . |
| 26 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 27 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 28 | Other sections give appreciable protection to LCH with regard to collateral security in its hands : eg , s 175 removes from LCH the restrictions on enforcement of security which would otherwise apply , under the Insolvency Act 1986 , in the event that a defaulting member 's affairs were placed in the hands of an administrator ; and s 177 allows collateral lodged with LCH to be realised and applied notwithstanding a prior equitable interest or right of which LCH did not have notice at the time the collateral was received . |
| 29 | It is run by Ian and Ann Hewitt who met in Trinidad , where Ann 's relatives were established in the hotel business . |
| 30 | Prior to 1982 , the park 's alligators were kept in the reptile house , where , on several occasions , the female constructed a nest of dead plant material and laid eggs . |