Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were convicted of armed robberies and sentenced to 15 years and 14 years respectively . |
| 2 | They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 . |
| 3 | The location of the airfields was not logical if they were intended for defensive purposes . |
| 4 | We was in a two-bedroomed erm council flat but they were intended for old age pensioners like you know . |
| 5 | The applications of copper-based metals were extensive , and as new alloys became available through developments in smelting they were exploited in new ways . |
| 6 | Within ten minutes they were seated on either side of Livesey 's desk , surrounded by files and account books . |
| 7 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 8 | Rocks close under the window were covered with grey and orange lichens ; further out they were encrusted with barnacles and beyond that they were blanketed with brown seaweeds , their slimy fronds gleaming in the sunshine . |
| 9 | They were invested with Japanese decorations and Aung San was given the rank of Major-General . |
| 10 | Perhaps they were disturbed by alarming reports from France , where the noble philosophical aims of Liberty , Equality and Fraternity were beginning to be taken a little too far . |
| 11 | There they were received with unfailing courtesy and friendliness , and over endless cups of coffee checked out facts , co-ordinated information , and often interviewed Helen Martini or Derek Edwards . |
| 12 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 13 | In April 1957 , when what remained of the work was being cleared up , some specimens which had been laid by to crystallize were found to have done so , and so they were sent for pharmacological investigation . |
| 14 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 15 | On 21 September 1989 committal proceedings commenced : they were concluded on 13 October . |
| 16 | They were concluded on 13 October 1989 and on 2 November the case was listed for trial in the Crown Court at Isleworth , the trial to commence on 11 December . |
| 17 | Financial and administrative constraints permitting , the proposed more open and formal systems of careers guidance , support , and appraisal could achieve much especially if , as proposed , they were reinforced by explicit fairness in appointments procedures from preregistration level upwards and monitored for ethnic and gender neutrality under the auspices of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 18 | Now of course they were drenched with this water sump water coming from this blow hole . |
| 19 | They were drenched in cheap perfume , and draped with gaudy women 's clothing and costume jewellery mixed with talismans and ritual power objects . |
| 20 | What and they were matched in some way ? |
| 21 | In June 1991 they were acquitted on all charges and proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 were discontinued . |
| 22 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 24 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 25 | Fifty youngsters from Kirkby CE Primary School and Simonswood Primary School were taken to Alder Hey Children 's Hospital after they were overcome by strong bleach fumes used to clear a blocked drain at the pool . |
| 26 | The band was two accordions and the tunes were chaloupés and javas valsées , penetrating , jerky , fast , and they were danced with extreme devotion and virtuosity . |
| 27 | Her London home was used as a hostel by the Scottish rank and file who needed a bed in the capital as they were posted from one place to another , and all were made welcome . |
| 28 | In particular women discovered they were treated with rare attention and understanding . |
| 29 | In the South , too , the scales of the law courts were tilted against them ; they were for the most part deprived of the right to vote , by various devices , notably the poll tax imposed on every voter ; and socially they were treated as lower-grade humans . |
| 30 | They were treated in this way because birds might be able to acquire the skill simply by coming across an already opened milk bottle . |