Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 2 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 3 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 4 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 5 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 6 | But last night police and safety experts admitted they were worried . |
| 7 | Initially both brothers found they were delighted with the arrangement . |
| 8 | But though they no longer imported some categories of finished products , many Third World manufacturers found they were importing the components , materials and technology for these products instead . |
| 9 | Traders say they were promised that Merchants Quay would be at the centre of a thriving complex of shops , restaurants and homes , but now they 're surrounded by offices , and cut off from customers . |
| 10 | For them , the use of the term ‘ British ’ as a synonym for ‘ English ’ is an insult , a fact that English Conservatives sometimes overlook : introducing the poll tax a year early in Scotland was probably the worst blow to British unity in recent years , for it made the Scots feel they were being treated like second-class citizens . |
| 11 | The Frenchmen claimed they were making a film for tunnel owner Eurotunnel but were detained after crossing into the British sector . |
| 12 | Longbowmen claimed they were more relaxed and less competitive , not ‘ pot-hunters ’ . |
| 13 | They did not ever smile — but you could tell that when their empty eyes opened they were alive . |
| 14 | The court said that because the articles showed that the auditors were not to be called in until the parties showed they were in disagreement , the auditors were to act as arbitrators . |
| 15 | The geophysical models of the East Grampian Younger Basic intrusions imply they were not part of a single large layered basic/ultrabasic intrusive sheet . |
| 16 | Executives led clients to believe they were being put on the market immediately , and , indeed , this was what they themselves thought was happening . |
| 17 | THE former staff of TV 's Grace Brothers claim they were snubbed by the BBC at a celebrity party . |
| 18 | Ansel Key 's subjects knew they were not going to be starved to death , being part of a controlled experiment under constant medical supervision , so in their cases the implications of hunger were not life-threatening . |
| 19 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 20 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 21 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 22 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 23 | Some survivors complained they were being herded towards the site of the second bomb and were only 50ft away when it exploded . |
| 24 | It may have been one of the shortest epics on record — just seven minutes — but you wo n't hear any Armagh supporters claiming they were short-changed ! |
| 25 | She wanted to prod them and gaze into their eyes to check they were n't real . |
| 26 | Yet presumably the grand unified theory has determined that the authors think they were correct . |
| 27 | The dominatrixes denied they were influenced by Madonna , on the contrary , they claimed , the pop icon had been influenced by their ‘ art ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of our fans said they were happy we did n't get a second goal because they feared more trouble , ’ said Bangor secretary Freddie Anderson . |
| 29 | ‘ The umpires said they were both unsighted , ’ ND manager Tom Thomson said afterwards . |
| 30 | but they did n't explode , so the RAF lads said they were made of macaroni . |