Sentence examples for were estate from inspiring English sources

The commission members included Lumumba, who says, "The land belonged to the government or was in trust for the people but the trustees, particularly the presidents, behaved as if they were estate owners.

Miroslav has long gone back to his native Macedonia to escape the clamour of the Mladic case and it was his sister-in-law, Djuka, who emerged from a nearby house to quiz visitors, thinking they were estate agents.

Among those quoted reporting that the referendum had hit property sales were estate agents in Leicester, Grimsby and Exeter, as well as those in central London where the result could have the biggest impact on prices.

When they died, taxes had to be paid on the tax-deferred income and then there were estate taxes to boot.

"It was The Lee versus the Manor House and back in those days the house was the biggest employer and most of The Lee players were estate workers," said Mr Line.

The only passengers were estate employees and people accompanying livestock.

Cult cabernets were certainly out of bounds, as were estate-grown wines from many solid producers.

These were estates with assets exceeding $5 million".

The better translation is estate.

Few people plan to be estate managers.

A telling exception, though, are estate agents.