Example sentences of "they [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 2 | Those were ever so nice that they got were n't they ? |
| 3 | The funds they manipulated were substantially other people 's . |
| 4 | The first membranes they made were far too thin and would not survive transfer into air , let alone freeze-drying . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 8 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 9 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 10 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 11 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 12 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What they found were prisons . |
| 20 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 21 | The paddles they used were the very narrow bladed ones like the Inuit sea kayak paddles . |
| 22 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Webster and Stewart had this in mind , even though the terms they used were evenness and fairness , when they pointed out that an ‘ uneven distribution … may be regarded as ‘ fair ’ if the variation is related to need . |
| 24 | The methods they used were were the same tactical methods |
| 25 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 26 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 27 | They travelled by ferry , and among the places that they visited were Paris , Lille and Bruges . |
| 28 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 29 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 30 | They 've lodged an official complaint against the police , who they say were treating the case as suicide . |