Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [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 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 3 | When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands , the game was still mostly amateur . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The new men were not aping the landed gentry ; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 18 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 19 | Every one had to be taken out and held down while we picked off the ants that were sinking their jaws between the scales . |
| 20 | People were turning their cars in the driveway to leave the party and caught us in their headlights . |
| 21 | On the contrary , they were risking their lives at the forefront of discovery in a new branch of science . |
| 22 | A third , small , anoraked figure approached the sergeant from behind where his two captives were kicking their legs like the rear end of a pantomime horse on speed . |
| 23 | The hill peoples were sending their representatives to a gathering at Panglong in the Shan States . |
| 24 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 25 | The spear-shaped leaves of the gum tree were dappling their faces as the sun moved towards the Andes . |
| 26 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 27 | Some half-dozen of the girls were having their elevenses in the sunshine in between lessons , and drinking their coffee with a great deal of laughter and chattering . |
| 28 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 29 | Singing was intended to enhance the bond between us , for by reciting verses and lines about the Legion , past and present , we were reinforcing our beliefs in the traditions we stood for . |
| 30 | They were also rejecting the Great American Dream that had gripped their post-war acquisitive parents , who were stocking their homes with every electric device provided in the Fifties consumer boom . |