Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE The Stones appealed to the students , and the Beatles to the girls and their mums , The Who were always the lads ' band . |
| 2 | But erm another funny story that er always sticks in my mind is er when we sent memos to the Clerks ' Department and there was only the Clerks ' Department , they were , they were trying to erm improve their public image as |
| 3 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
| 4 | There was no amorous intent about it , because Matt had assured her that Silas was not a ladies ' man . |
| 5 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 6 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 7 | It was once the Friends ' Meeting House , and a flight of stone steps led to it when I first knew it . |
| 8 | As Young and Willmott ( 1973 , p. 227 ) say ‘ there was still a women 's world and a men 's , in social contacts as in other ways . ’ |
| 9 | Alida was really the sisters ' friend . |
| 10 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 11 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 12 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
| 13 | It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort . |