Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I blush now : I suppose 140 were line bites and 27 times a bream had a bait gingerly between its lips . |
| 2 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 3 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |
| 4 | It is said that the views which I expressed in my judgments in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 and In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 26 which are relevant to this were obiter and did not receive the express assent of those sitting with me . |
| 5 | The lights that were fainter were memory buoys . |
| 6 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 7 | Ecumenical pooling of resources for translation work is now normal ; in 1984 , out of 590 translation projects in progress , 390 were inter-confessional involving Catholics . |
| 8 | Funny were sort of company is n't it ? |
| 9 | Many of the 53 were line engravings such as were commonly taken from existing portraits in oils : the Mercier picture seems , though , to have escaped this treatment and was not copied until the age of the photogravure plate . |
| 10 | Twenty six diabetic patients , of whom 22 were insulin dependent and four non-insulin-dependent ( Table I ) , were studied . |
| 11 | All the deaths in the past , some were history , those were painless , but not the new ones . |
| 12 | Some were heather bogs , some bracken bogs and others were boggy floodlands of marsh grass . |
| 13 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 14 | Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall , who had not yet specialised , but were hoping to . |
| 15 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 16 | Some of the pictures were stills , some were movie . |
| 17 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 18 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 19 | Of forty-two sub-seneschals appointed between 1254 and 1317 ( of Agenais , Bigorre , Landes , Périgord , Quercy , Limousin and Saintonge ) no less than thirty-nine were Gascon nobles , two were English and one was a Savoyard . |
| 20 | This was manna for the banks . |
| 21 | For him , a heavy smoker , this was manna sent from heaven : he now had a large supply to keep him going . |
| 22 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 23 | In private cases this was progress of a substantial order . |
| 24 | This was IT . |
| 25 | Instead , they were faced with a statement from a Scotland Yard spokesman that there was no indication that this was terrorist activity , while the IRA had denied all involvement . |
| 26 | This was sandrat heaven . |
| 27 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 28 | This was year one , everything was a world premiere . |
| 29 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 30 | This was work with a tradition of culture and self-improvement . |