Example sentences of "[det] [verb] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 2 | Dalian Atkinson and Yorke all playing were of course different class |
| 3 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 4 | Those included were in Dakar , Niamey , Yaoundé , Bamako , Fort-Lamy , Conakry , Abidjan , Lomé , Cotonou , Douala , St. Louis and Brazzaville . |
| 5 | Those convicted were among 48 people indicted for fraud in 1989 after a two-year inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) [ see also p. 37406 ] . |
| 6 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
| 7 | Springfield 's satisfaction with the success of the night 's operation , was somewhat tempered by the fact that only three of those captured were from the upper echelon of grey tracksuited heavies , the Apostles . |