Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , were Opren the first drug disaster presided over by CSM it might , to parody Oscar Wilde , have been reasonably ascribed to misfortune . |
| 2 | But as the romance , continued to drag on , there were signs the story was wearing thin , especially for Jason , who was beginning to tire of the facade . |
| 3 | They also said that there were signs the ceasefire was beginning to be respected . |
| 4 | Taking some comfort from the fact that January 's rise was lower than in previous months , the director of the Confederation of British Industry Scotland , David MacLehose , said there were signs the economy was recovering . |
| 5 | ‘ Beauty depends on the multitude of its land owners ; for were Grasmere the property of one person , he might exterminate the wood in a spring ; but fifty men are seldom in one humour . |
| 6 | Foremost among his parishioners were Watkin the dung-collector and his wife , a woman built like a battering ram , hard-faced , with iron grey hair hanging down to her shoulders . |
| 7 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 8 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 9 | Were matters the other way round , with sterling at lower interest rates than the US$ , then the US$ would need to be quoted at a discount . |
| 10 | There were places the race train did n't really need to stop , he said , except to keep pace with the Canadian . |
| 11 | The two books were Gotama the Man ( sometimes spelt Gautama ) , and a splendidly substantial one entitled Sakya . |
| 12 | In fact i has to be less than 90° for the simple reason that the supergiant does not eclipse the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 at any part of the orbit ; if τ were 90° the orbits would be seen edge-on and eclipsing would be unavoidable . |
| 13 | There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss . |
| 14 | If they were landowners , they had insufficient capital , if they were tenants the local practice of yearly verbal agreements with landlords offered them little security for a return on any considerable investment . |
| 15 | After that , I could have told her that you were Jack the Ripper and she 'd have believed me . |
| 16 | They were rubbish the bananas . |
| 17 | This was the background to one of the most famous incidents of heroism in early literature , for the pass was Ronscevalles and the dead men were Eggihard the Seneschal , Anselm , Count of the Palace , and Roland , Warden of the Breton Marches . |
| 18 | Among his teachers were Peter the Chanter , Peter of Poitiers , who commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( as well as producing his own Five Books of Sentences before 1170 ) , Melior of Pisa and Peter of Corbeil . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know much about Kaiserslautern , except that they finished fifth last season and were champions the year before , but we will certainly have them watched . ’ |
| 20 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 21 | Why was it , I asked Mahmood , that although a majority of workers at Grunwick were women the strike committee consisted ( till then ) mainly of men ? |
| 22 | A fourth , after asking if it were April the first , collapsed into giggles and hung up . |
| 23 | THERE WERE pumpkins the size of bean bags and groups of onions which would have made fair roofs for Byzantine churches . |
| 24 | There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel . |
| 25 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 26 | What the bird could n't do was measure the impact of the raid on Libyan morale . |
| 27 | Then defenceless , all we could do was fight the panic and slowly slip away . |
| 28 | Was Forrester the lad that scored the amazing overhead kick to win Leeds the youth cup last term ? |
| 29 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |
| 30 | Nor was Crécy the end of the campaign . |