Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words made things whole for him , words were what he always aspired to . |
| 2 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 3 | Words were everything and a quirky sense of observation added an extra ingredient . |
| 4 | ‘ What words were they ? |
| 5 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |
| 6 | Companies House raised no objections ; the first two words were his own name and the other two words of the title described his business . |
| 7 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 8 | In their evidence to the Social Services Committee on the Griffiths Report , Evans and Maxwell concluded that its most far-reaching and radical aspects were its proposals for the central management of the service , with its promise of a new relationship between the DHSS and local health authorities and the change from passive to active management ( Evans and Maxwell 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Soccer fans were its contribution to the global tradition of random violence . |
| 10 | Other considerations were his wanting to make another American film and because the project had got off the ground due to its big Hollywood stars . |
| 11 | Which schools were they ? |
| 12 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 13 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 14 | The fastest cars at Prescott were the big engined racing cars and the leading contenders were what 's affectionately known as the Cheltenham Mafia … |
| 15 | He said the house where he lived in the fashionable Perth suburb of Dalkeith , built for about £530,000 , was owned by a trust , and the beneficiaries were his children . |
| 16 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 17 | Like , the kids were my kids ' age , and , like , my kids still believe in Santa . |
| 18 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 19 | As the Jews were themselves divided in their sympathies and interests , the pro-Egyptian leaders had to take refuge in Egypt ( Hieron. in Dan . |
| 20 | For the ‘ highly-sexy ’ pictures were her first inkling that her lover Woody Allen was having an affair with the 21-year-old beauty . |
| 21 | Pictures were what mattered . |
| 22 | After we were shown where to sit and where our trays were we were shown around the school and where everything was . |
| 23 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 24 | Oh er lovely shops were them . |
| 25 | Er wh wh wh what other shops were there ? |
| 26 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 27 | He and his colleagues were well aware of the more rapid progress in America , and there were regular transatlantic visits by headquarters engineers , but only when they were quite sure of new techniques and had discussed them thoroughly with the British manufacturers were they prepared to make a move . |
| 28 | And she did that , how many performances were you there ? |
| 29 | Languages and artistic subjects were her main interests and , showing an early talent for drawing and painting , she became in 1864 the pupil of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | Shocked though his subjects were they obeyed . |