Example sentences of "[noun pl] were mainly [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob 's real heroes were mainly comedians … people like Liverpool 's Jimmy James ( the Bootle Chipster ) and Max Miller . |
| 2 | The Slavs were mainly adherents of the Orthodox Church , and many of the Slav clergy saw in the Russian Church an ally in the struggle against the Phanariot Greek clergy , backed by the sultan , who wished to remove Slav influences both from the liturgy and from the administration of the Church . |
| 3 | The features that impressed these employers about the spare/part-time jobs of young people applying for apprenticeships in their firms were mainly elements which were absent in WE schemes . |
| 4 | His patients were mainly Merseyside dockers and shipyard workers , and seamen injured at sea , and he had to deal with many severe accident cases . |
| 5 | And hundreds of people , architects , all this development here , this hundred houses were mainly architects or engineers from the Corporation |
| 6 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
| 7 | The vehicles were mainly conversions , the built exceptions being the corridor firsts and first brakes at Wolverton , and the six kitchen cars by Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd . |
| 8 | In fact the women were mainly wives of Welsh and English soldiers , and some high-ranking officers wives , who were preparing an evening meal . |
| 9 | The backs were mainly pedestrian but the fundamental problem lay elsewhere . |
| 10 | The serums were mainly calf lymph for the whooping cough patients , and the diphtheria anti-toxin given to the patients who needed this . |
| 11 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 12 | The victims were mainly civilians and included several children ; three members of the security forces were also killed . |