Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
| 2 | Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases . |
| 3 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 4 | Neither Coleridge nor the Wordsworths were in any doubt that ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was a work of great power and originality , a poem , as Coleridge later said , which could not be imitated . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 6 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 7 | Michael and Anne Heseltine were at either end of a large table of their constituents ; attending to the annual ritual whereby the faithful are rewarded for a year spent addressing envelopes and running bazaars . |
| 8 | But , as Oliver has already challenged their whereabouts on the evening Sabine was killed , I will say this : on that evening the Josephs were at that man 's house . |
| 9 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 10 | The attendees were mainly those responsible for the running of large office and retail complexes and several were surprised to discover that Rentokil were into this sector as well . |
| 11 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 12 | The deaf of Glasgow were at that time extremely fortunate to have in William Agnew a most intelligent and capable man , an artist in his leisure time , who through his hobby had come into contact with Queen Victoria and who enjoyed a friendship with Lord and Lady Blythswood ( Glasgow Deaf and Dumb F.C . |
| 13 | In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated . |
| 14 | These CMHTs were in some respects advantaged by serving large areas because ‘ community of interest ’ is as important if not more so for people with learning disabilities ( and their carers ) as is community in the sense of neighbourhood . |
| 15 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 16 | St Augustines and St Bedes were in any case , top of the original submission list of 25 projects . |
| 17 | The Dicks were amongst many others who have been recognised for their contribution . |
| 18 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 19 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 20 | Baldwin 's and Chamberlain 's attempts to appease Hitler were in this respect thoroughly British . |
| 21 | At home Leeds were in more trouble with the authorities , this time over a dispute with Fulham . |