Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandy Sowerby and Spencer were the scorers . |
| 2 | So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in . |
| 3 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop and Glengormley 's Jeremy McWilliams were the stars of the show at yesterday 's European Short Circuit Championship meeting , organised by the Coleraine club at Kirkistown . |
| 4 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop and Glengormley 's Jeremy McWilliams were the stars of the show at yesterday 's European Short Circuit Championship meeting , organised by the Coleraine club at Kirkistown . |
| 5 | Battle of Britain Air Display , RAF Finningley , September 19 Dominating the aircraft at Finningley were the F-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels team . |
| 6 | Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained . |
| 7 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 8 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 9 | Harry and David were the Brigade 's first horses but , soon after his arrival , David fell going down the Hill to Haversham , and was returned to Euston . |
| 10 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 11 | If Turenne and Gustavus were the leading soldiers on the Protestant side , then Tilly and Wallenstein were the leading figures in the armies of Ferdinand , who had himself been educated by the Jesuits at Ingolstadt . |
| 12 | The HDF and the SzDSz were the parties mainly in contention throughout the campaign . |
| 13 | Manchester United banked nearly £7m from all matches at Old Trafford , while Arsenal were the only other club to break the £5m barrier for League games alone . |
| 14 | Jack and Violet Sangston were the oldest , and their seventeen-year-old son Reggie was the youngest . |
| 15 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 16 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 17 | Bold concept cars from Renault and Citroen were the stars at the Paris motor show along with Mercedes ' new 500E Q-car . |
| 18 | Added to the Bonapartes were the Murats , the Tascher de la Pagerie ( relatives of Josephine ) and descendants of the ‘ Italian marriages ’ — the Primolis and the Bacciochis , some of whom held honorary positions at Court , Count Bacciochi , for example , being a Court Chamberlain . |
| 19 | The Habsburgs were the traditional enemy and still ruled ‘ unredeemed ’ Italians . |
| 20 | As the Habsburgs were the standard bearers of the Holy Roman Empire , they saw this frontier as the protective wall which shielded Christendom from the infidel Islamic hordes . |
| 21 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 22 | All the five archbishops before Michael Ramsey were the sons or grandsons of Christian ministers . |
| 23 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 24 | One set of early inhabitants of Crete were the Minoans who came from , amongst other places , Africa . |
| 25 | In general , the reform programme originated in the thought of the upper middle class of socially concerned professional people , of whom Beveridge and Keynes were the patron saints . |
| 26 | Great dockyards such as Chatham , Brest or Kronstadt were the biggest and most complex unified industrial enterprises of the age . |
| 27 | It had been evident that while both sections of the Danakil were murderously inclined , the Asaimara were the more formidable . |
| 28 | Thus the naval bombardment , which had , in fact , opened the way to Constantinople were the attack pressed home , served only to alert the Turks and their German ally to their peril in this area . |
| 29 | In fact , the new installations of the collections in Denver were the collaborative work of curators , designers and educators . |
| 30 | Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the acting master and matron , and they were not universally popular . |