Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 2 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 3 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 4 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 5 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 6 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 7 | Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding . |