Example sentences of "they [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow the chap , who had plainly gone over the top , he could understand that , must be convinced they were no threat to him . |
| 2 | They were no threat to him ; they were far away , and he was in tree-shade , and had nothing bright about him to catch the light . |
| 3 | But they were no strangers to Jack because he called out ‘ See yer later Molly ’ as took his leave . |
| 4 | Indeed , they were no doubt very glad to have the reassurance of each other 's presence for travelling into an unknown future . |
| 5 | They were no doubt relieved , as Theo definitely was , that he had escaped from the clutches of ‘ that woman ’ . |
| 6 | Black leaders showed a new and sharper determination in calling for equality ; they were no doubt encouraged by Eleanor Roosevelt 's support for their cause , though the New Deal did little in practice for them . |
| 7 | They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture . |
| 8 | Asked to comment on the German government 's targets , Knauss said that they were no doubt based on a " very thorough " study , adding that " we have not done that level of study " . |
| 9 | They were no doubt intended to operate principally on exports of oil but Baghdad gained a propaganda advantage from drawing attention to their effect of depriving Iraq 's population of imported food and medical supplies . |
| 10 | THREE high school pupils proved they were no mugs when they took part in a shared business project with Wedgwood staff . |
| 11 | I tore a little but only needed three stitches , and they were no problem at all . |
| 12 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 13 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 14 | It seems this was insufficient for , ‘ despite playing pluckily , they were no match ! ’ |
| 15 | Though they fought bravely , they were no match for the trained mercenaries . |
| 16 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |
| 17 | Second-to-bottom Westhoughton were better than their position suggests , but they were no match for a hungry outfit , who sealed the win thanks to further strikes by Graham Dodd and a Mark Wilson penalty . |
| 18 | But then again they were no match to . |
| 19 | Exercises in a room were all very well , but they were no substitute for running every day . |
| 20 | They were no good . ’ |
| 21 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 22 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 23 | the speakers I says , then they said they were no good ! |
| 24 | I thought you could take them back to that Wilko 's if they were no good , you know . |
| 25 | They were no use for recording programmes , however , and the public opted for video cassette recorders instead . |
| 26 | But even they were no use to the unmarried mothers without fathers to mind the babies . |
| 27 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 28 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 29 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 30 | If some factories are now producing fewer feet-breaking shoes and unusable machines than they were a year ago , so much the better . |