Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 2 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 3 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 4 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 5 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 6 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
| 7 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
| 8 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |
| 9 | But erm that was your final one and er that was run by a Mr , I remember Mr because he was also the sports master as well . |
| 10 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |