Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 2 | At Lockleys , Herts. , for example , six types of stone foreign to the locality were recorded but none of these was used in the pavement of room 2 . |
| 3 | Additionally , some octamer and decamer peptides were analysed but none of these bound . |
| 4 | During a debate , the party was reminded that one in 20 Labour members is under 25 years old while the average age of the party is 45 . |
| 5 | This was a deliberate policy : it was felt that anyone with sufficient education to understand or be interested in foreign news could be expected to listen to and understand English . |
| 6 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 7 | It was found that one in 15 among 200 people with odour problems investigated had a condition called trimethylaminuria — or fish odour syndrome . |