Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] were [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |
| 2 | Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow . |
| 3 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 4 | The boy was shaking , and when he looked up at Rory there were tears in his eyes . |
| 5 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 6 | That evening and the next day there were speeches in which Sturge and Birmingham received particular notice . |
| 7 | If the restraint is confined to acting on behalf of people who were clients of your firm during the subsistence of the employment , it may be valid . |
| 8 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 9 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 10 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 11 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 12 | Rulers who were kings in their own right were placed in a subordinate ‘ feudal ’ relationship to the kings of France as a result of their continental inheritance . |
| 13 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 14 | A long-standing friendship with an Asian family who were neighbours of mine led to my being involved in the process of Statementing their youngest child , Balbinder Singh . |
| 15 | ‘ My lord , it is good to see you , ’ she told him , and this time there were tears in her eyes . |
| 16 | One did not see uniformed members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista walking about the streets every day , but from time to time there were parades in which they could easily be identified . |
| 17 | By which time they were miles inside our Front . ’ |