Example sentences of "they were [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he spoke , his voice was tight , fully realising that the respirators they were wearing were inadequate for most nerve gases . |
| 2 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 3 | They were gone were n't they ? |
| 4 | when they were painted were n't it ? |
| 5 | But essentially , the time in which they were built is a world apart from the time we live in . |
| 6 | A good idea of how the great Norman towers looked when they were built is provided by the large , pilgrimage church at Southwell ( 296 ) . |
| 7 | No one seemed to appreciate that the ‘ body ’ they were discussing was actually the person I loved . ’ |
| 8 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 9 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 10 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 11 | The ploughed field they were passing was speckled with brilliant-green shoots . |
| 12 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 13 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 14 | They were also in a test situation , and were aware that the passages they were reading were to be followed by questions . |
| 15 | But he did not like leaving England , even in the winter , and , among the American tourists of Barbados , they soon felt homesick : Eliot was convinced , too , that the manager of the hotel in which they were staying was trying to exploit his presence there . |
| 16 | And here and there you will see hieroglyphs have been erased , if somebody 's got a chisel and there 's a , just a raise a whole block of hieroglyphs , er just there and then and almost always that is Akhenaten 's workmen did it and the hieroglyphs they were erasing was the plural er gods . |
| 17 | But I mean you see the problem is that how the rich erm rich peasants two different mutual aid teams which meant that how that they did n't ha the resources they were sharing were pretty much the same . |
| 18 | Does Schüssler Fiorenza mean that one is inspired by these women , although the religion in which they were involved is sexist ( in which case one is inspired to act against the biblical God ) ? |
| 19 | The toys they were using were called analogues , adjective check-lists and pseudo-clients with fake case histories … the rules are such that all discovery and exploration is blocked through the control and manipulation of the ‘ subject ’ and the relevant variables to obtain relevant data . |
| 20 | The last time they were altered was I think about nineteen seventy nine or nineteen eighty one . |
| 21 | Examples of the transcribed tape for two of the subjects and the way in which they were scored are given in Appendix 1.3 . |
| 22 | I failed recently to convince a group of people on Arran that the ‘ eagle ’ they were seeing was , in fact , a buzzard . |
| 23 | And they were noted were n't they for rubbish . |
| 24 | The fattys were all trying their best to eat more and more but they did n't realise that the pills they were eating were actually eating all the food for them . |
| 25 | It took only one or two flights in the Canberra to convince them that they were getting was a bomber with a fighter performance ! |
| 26 | Nevertheless , in a group of neurotic patients , a placebo was effective even when they knew the pills they were taking were inert . |
| 27 | Second , coordinators as a group were acutely conscious of the way their own success depended in large part upon how they and the practices they were promoting were regarded by existing staff in the schools where they were placed . |
| 28 | Caught up in the performance , few people seemed to wonder whether what they were hearing was an accurate account of the affair . |
| 29 | And if what they were hearing was really true , then this was indeed more important than most of those East Coast press conferences . |
| 30 | They were singing were n't they remember ? |