Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly then in early modern England the ways of conceptualizing sexuality and sexual deviance were fundamentally different from ours , as were the perceived relations between sexuality and subjectivity . |
| 2 | All three were the predestined victims of capitalism , though , as we have seen , neither the peasantry nor the country-based social hierarchy which rested on its backs were in any immediate danger of collapse . |
| 3 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 4 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 5 | But what no one could foresee were the complex problems of readjustment. for instance , the emotional strain of leaving Baldersdale almost certainly reduced her resistance to the germs and viruses that also come with the overall package of civilization . |
| 6 | Public utilities such as electricity supply and London Transport were put under public corporations between the wars , and they were the standard form of nationalization in the Attlee government for railways , air and freight transport , coal and steel . |
| 7 | Teaching ward rounds were the standard method of instruction and 27 consultants said their house officers also attended regular clinical meetings . |
| 8 | Reasonably enough , princes required to be taught how to make war , and since many of the authors of these works were clerics , they turned to what were the standard handbooks on war to find the information they needed . |
| 9 | The owning Regions had their priorities to maintain to reasonable standards the stations on main lines and which were the calling points for InterCity trains . |
| 10 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 11 | Two outstanding characteristics of labour law during the second half of that century were the intermittent recognition by politicians in government and Parliament that control of trade unionism by the imposition of penalties was of doubtful efficacy ; and the recurrent attempts by the courts to preserve the penal method . |
| 12 | Those humble seeds were the sticking point in negotiations between the US and EC which led to Washington walking out of the Gatt trade talks in Chicago this week . |
| 13 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
| 14 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 15 | He was a realpolitiker , believing nation-states were the prime actors in world affairs and that they operated by the logic of the balance of power . |
| 16 | Participants at the summit were the Prime Ministers of Hungary , Poland , the Czech Republic and Slovakia — respectively Jozsef Antall , Hanna Suchocka , Vaclav Klaus and Vladimir Meciar ; a Deputy Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak federal government , Antonin Baudys ; John Major , in his capacity as president of the EC Council , and Jacques Delors , the President of the EC Commission . |
| 17 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |
| 18 | They were the supreme embodiment of sovereignty ; the army owed obedience to them personally ; the debts of the State were their personal debts ; they could override or anticipate the decisions of any court of law . |
| 19 | And all the time there were the escalating costs for handling , packaging and processing the wastes at the Sellafield complex . |
| 20 | Particularly alarming were the estimated costs of pension commitments already undertaken , and the projected costs of stubbornly high continuing rates of unemployment ( OECD 1981 ) . |
| 21 | They were the perfect soldiers for Aenarion 's holy war . |
| 22 | To him , however , the overriding developments were the increasing centralization of party organization and the growing predominance of the unions . |
| 23 | And dotted through the year were the increasing number of Days dedicated to Saints who were honoured with his particular attentions . |
| 24 | The years around 1900 were the golden age of shopfront design . |
| 25 | Crystal Jack and Gone Savage were the other speedsters on target on Saturday . |
| 26 | Closely linked with justice were the other aspects of administration . |
| 27 | For these two were emotionally fixated on that monster , bonded to it by sentiments which were the cruellest parody of love and of family attachment . |
| 28 | The next few weeks were the usual scurry of fitting and fixturing . |
| 29 | Thirdly , targeted industries should have markets that were known to be price and income elastic and would offer long-term growth , in contrast to the low value-added products that were the usual sources of stagnation in Asian economies . |
| 30 | There were the usual arguments about freedom of choice and to these were added the less usual one about equity , allowing local authority tenants to share in the economic benefits of owner-occupation . |