Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 2 | Some crimes were acts of protest , but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal . |
| 3 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 4 | For the Christian , as we have seen , wars were acts of pacification since they were fought to secure peace which depended upon justice . |
| 5 | They were objects of high style , like Garbo and Dietrich . |
| 6 | They were objects of interest , to a degree even their crews did not understand . |
| 7 | I was in no doubt : it was robbery ; there were objects of yours he wanted . |
| 8 | Joined trees were objects of good omen ; symbols of conjugal happiness and marital fidelity . |
| 9 | There were cases of families being made to leave by conditions being rendered difficult for them after they had made complaints to the corporation housing department . |
| 10 | There were cases of teachers following girls home , and one who exposed himself . |
| 11 | The most students could hope to see were cases of diseased udders , feet and skin ; there were few parturitions . |
| 12 | In the building and the big yard beside it there were cases of very expensive items . |
| 13 | We assumed that at each hospital the same proportion of missing or inadequate records ( 317/5167=6.1% ) were cases of Alzheimer 's disease and estimated that about 43 cases of probable Alzheimer 's disease ( 6.1% of 707 ) were omitted because of lost or inadequate records . |
| 14 | Against a faded wallpaper , striped in red and pink , were cases of butterflies and moths . |
| 15 | Of these 67 patients , most were cases of diffuse oesophageal spasm or hypertensive lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 16 | th there were cases of cadres being rightist and taking too much land for themselves , the Communist Party actually exaggerated this problem and that the main cause was erm the very low lan land ratio . |
| 17 | Scientists theorised that both attacks were cases of sharks mistaking divers in wet suits for seals . |
| 18 | However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis . |
| 19 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 20 | And there were photocopies of press coverage of the famous 1982 march on the Porton Down chemical defence establishment and on the activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association , including the famous quote from one Master of Fox Hounds advocating that horse-whipping a saboteur was , like beating his wife , a private matter . |
| 21 | The royal families of the local principalities were Nayar but many of the major landlords were Brahmins of the Nambudiri caste . |
| 22 | Some of them were ex-members of the committees of poor peasants ( kombedy ) that had requisitioned in military style during War Communism , a style that lingered on . |
| 23 | But , with the notable exception of the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs ( widely regarded in the 1960s , by people who now wish they had n't , as a home for impractical crackpots ) , they were guardians of the chalice of consensus . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that the Templars were guardians of a secret that could have rocked both the French throne and the entire foundations of Christianity . |
| 25 | These gnomes would move freely through the earth and were guardians of mines and quarries . |
| 26 | In his section of the AB , Hincmar attributed many crucial diplomatic and political activities to queens : since some were activities of which he approved , and only some queens were credited with such roles , it seems less likely that he obsessively exaggerated the nefarious influence of women ( though misogyny was in the air breathed by medieval churchmen ) than that he accurately portrayed a feature of Carolingian political life underrecorded by other contemporary writers . |
| 27 | In Yorkshire , Pamela Allerston showed that some villages were replacements of earlier hamlets and others were agglomerations of pre-existing centres ( Fig. 34 ) . |
| 28 | He had thought that their businesses were realms of feudal benevolence . |
| 29 | Not only did Japanese stereos or Italian fridges add to the comfort of life , they were badges of rank , proof of one 's standing in the hierarchy of power . |
| 30 | Instead , they were badges of her aroused masochistic passion . |