Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] were [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 2 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 3 | As Building News declared in 1875 : ‘ Railway termini and hotels are to the nineteenth century what monasteries and cathedrals were to the thirteenth century . |
| 4 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 5 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |