Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 2 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 3 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 4 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 5 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 6 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 7 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 8 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 9 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 10 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 11 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 12 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 13 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 14 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 15 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 16 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 17 | They also pointed to what they claimed were morale-boosting concessions by the Soviet leadership to the armed forces , notably the promotion of Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov to the rank of Marshal on April 28 , and the holding of a big military parade in Red Square on May 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe . |
| 18 | The auction houses quite wisely retreated , leaving specialist dealers bemoaning what they alleged were short-sighted policies . |
| 19 | This ignored , or misunderstood , the regular complaint of employers about the lack of good workmen , which did not mean they required ‘ skilled ’ workers , who were always available ; what they required were efficient workers . |
| 20 | Liberal pique over what they felt was inadequate consultation and personal rivalry between the leaders of the parties were seen by some as the most potent causes of the rift , but the official reason which the Liberals , the junior partners in the coalition , gave was their objection to the ending of tax deductions for car commuters and the raising of taxes on petrol and diesel fuel . |
| 21 | All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway . |
| 22 | People walking across what they thought was firm snow would fall through into fast running streams that had n't even been there before . |
| 23 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 24 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 25 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 26 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 27 | I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends . |
| 28 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 29 | Good times , yes , they had been good times … |
| 30 | They had been good friends , had helped each other over the years . |