Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , when staff were asked what features of a text would cause them to reject its use as a class reader , ‘ sexism ’ was volunteered as one such reason by staff in three of the six schools visited . |
| 2 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 3 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 4 | The objective of the study was to determine which aspects of the UK government 's implementation of the Less Favoured Areas Directive are responsible for the agriculture/nature conservation conflict and to recommend changes aimed at retaining a predominantly agricultural land use in the uplands without further loss and degradation of its unique nature conservation interest . |
| 5 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |