Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1338 the northern clergy were to instruct their parishioners about the crucial need for , and inescapable burdens of , defence against the Scots , so that the ‘ pious exhortations ’ of the priests might induce support for a united struggle against the enemies of the realm . |
| 2 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 3 | At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling . |
| 4 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 5 | The troops were given their briefing in the hall . |
| 6 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 7 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 8 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 9 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 10 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 11 | Yes , erm , when Harlow was designed , it was appreciated that its , the , its purpose was to house workers in the factories and the offices and also to act as an overspill from London , and in nineteen sixty when Cossors were bringing their workers by the hundreds |
| 12 | The new men were not aping the landed gentry ; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain . |
| 13 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 14 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 15 | ‘ You were driving your Daimler on the A614 — southbound — at two a.m. yesterday morning . |
| 16 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 17 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 18 | They were walking their horses among the sand-dunes south of the castle , and on their left hand the sea ran high and grey , and the gulls were uneasy , aware of coming wind . |
| 19 | Suragai and Kadan were walking their st'lyan on the grass where the stream curved away out of sight , each of them with one of the twins in the saddle . |
| 20 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 21 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 22 | Public concern was also heightened on Sept. 29 by an announcement that the prosecuting authorities were ending their investigation into the cases of 12 other politicians , none of whom was named , who had received some of the Sagawa Kyubin money originally given to Kanemaru . |
| 23 | It was almost as if an invisible hand were pressing his finger against the barrel . |
| 24 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 25 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 26 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 27 | The shoots were pushing their heads above the ground even though the group was still able to claim record profits as late as January of this year . |
| 28 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 29 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 30 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |