Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |