Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 2 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 3 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 4 | Regrettably , last night 's audience was a meagre one , but what they got was impressive , to say the least . |
| 5 | All they got was embarrassed . |
| 6 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 7 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 8 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 9 | On average they had only five or six peasant households at their disposal , and since they lacked the capital , the expertise , and the time to raise peasant productivity , the exactions they made were onerous . |
| 10 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 11 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 12 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 13 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 14 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it . |
| 20 | The range of sciences on which they drew was greater . |
| 21 | Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters . |
| 22 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 23 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 24 | ‘ What they found was this , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 25 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 26 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 27 | These findings are consistent with the data of Simmonds et al although they used myeloperoxidase staining rather than measurement of myeloperoxidase activity , and the concentration of azide they used was 10-fold higher than concentrations that are believed to be specific for myeloperoxidase inhibition and thus may have been somewhat non-selective . |
| 28 | The response from the public in places they visited was generous and heartwarming . |
| 29 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 30 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |