Example sentences of "were [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whilst one can needless to say appreciate your anxiety for one born to high estate and deprived over-soon of the protection of his sire , pray be assured that were King Edward of happy memory here with us now , he would urge you to relinquish your over-protectiveness of the prince . ’ |
| 2 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 3 | There were tricoleur roundels on its wings , but on the fuselage the fierce head of an Indian brave in full war feathers was an insignia that had not been seen before . |
| 4 | In the inclusive tours section the runners-up were Lincoln Travel of Peterlee and Callers Pegasus of Stockton . |
| 5 | These were Denis Baxter for his delicate etching ‘ Cannington Viaduct ’ , Miranda Ellis for the almost abstract and evocatively coloured watercolour ‘ Blue morning kitchen window ’ , Sophie Rider for the solid and amusing sculpture ‘ Horse with tulip ’ and Bonnie Brown for the de Stael-like oil painting ‘ Celia 's dream on the headland ’ . |
| 6 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 7 | Its leading officials were Will Ballantine of the National Union of Railwaymen , and Fenner Brockway , both ILP members , and it maintained a close liaison with the Party . |
| 8 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 9 | A lot has happened since The Dennisons were chart contenders with songs like Walking the Dog . |
| 10 | Both were sister papers of established dailies , the Telegraph and Mail , which could be expected to provide a core of readers and whose presses had spare capacity . |
| 11 | Dot tried not to think of Hitler , nor of Dick Barton Special Agent , nor of the Fifth Columnists , nor of those giant nuns with rifles and huge booted feet beneath their long black skirts who were enemy soldiers in disguise . |
| 12 | Among other Cabinet members , most of whom were new to national politics , were Ronnie Ramlakhan at Foreign Affairs , Hans Breeveld in charge of Internal Affairs and Regional Development , Eddy Varseveld at Economic Affairs and Paul Sjak Sjie as Minister of Justice and Police . |
| 13 | She said there were speed restrictions on the A167 at Aycliffe , Croxdale and Chilton , and Ferryhill people ought to be given the same protection . |
| 14 | Her family were fabric manufacturers with mills and factories around Lake Como . |
| 15 | It was a poor situation in which to have to assume control : Palace were rock bottom of the League with only nine points from 18 matches and had crashed 1–4 at home to Millwall in the 1st round of the FA Cup ; their seventh consecutive defeat . |
| 16 | Many of the families were Ayrshire members of the Free Church of Scotland , led by the Rev. Thomas Burns , and on the eve of departure the minister conducted a service on the shore . |
| 17 | All were BMS missionaries in Zaire until they had to leave that country . |
| 18 | With him were Richard Reynolds of Middlesex , a butcher ; William Frears , a pawn-broker ; James Newton and Richard Gunson , gentlemen ; Edward Frears of Ravenglass , a yeoman ; and George Maidwell . |
| 19 | Among those present were Richard Berthoud of the Policy Studies Institute , Rod Blair of the Office of Fair Trading , Geraint Howells of the Unit for Commercial Law Studies , University of Sheffield , Bob Imrie , a leading Trading Standards Officer , and Gerald Howarth MP , the Association 's new Parliamentary Consultant . |
| 20 | But before we left we decided to spring a little surprise on two friends whose husbands were artillery officers in North Africa while Leslie was there . |
| 21 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 22 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 23 | That 's slightly up on 1991 when the firm sold a total of 5,225 workstations worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 24 | In 1938–39 , Hampden Jackson and Poole working in harness established nine new centres of which five were WEA branches at East Dereham , Hingham , Swaffham , Walsingham and Wymondham . |
| 25 | He was wearing a flat cap , a suit and a choker , and there were dock gates in the background . |
| 26 | Other leading medal winners were David Tupman of Ormesby ( three golds , one silver ) , Andrew McCreath of Hummersknott School , Darlington ( one gold , two silver , two bronze ) and John Purvis ( Hartlepool ) , who won three silvers and three bronze . |
| 27 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 28 | And just as in the first leg at Ibrox a fortnight ago , there were football fireworks at Elland Road last night . |
| 29 | ‘ There were football pitches on the Bolle Road site and Courage 's sports ground behind . ’ |
| 30 | She was unwilling to ally herself entirely with the three truly black girls in her class , who were scholarship students from poor families . |