Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 2 | From the respectable view , these rogues were merely the dregs of civilization — potentially dangerous , it is true , but in no way a part of the true social order . |
| 3 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 4 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 5 | But there were always the acres of parkland , garden , and water , and always friends happy to come and stay . |
| 6 | IF the Swiss were once the masters of miniaturisation , they have surely been overtaken by the Japanese . |
| 7 | There were also the dangers of salmonella entering the food chain and the emission of methane , 30 times more damaging than carbon dioxide . |
| 8 | Journalists were also the targets of violence in other countries such as Pakistan , India , Togo , Sudan and the USA . |
| 9 | Women were often the instigators of market riots , but many incidents reveal prior intent and planning . |
| 10 | As was noted in Chapter 3 , no very great resistance had been mounted to the employment of women in the early days , partly because the numbers were small , partly because the union had been weakened by the 1872–3 strike , and partly , it must be remembered , because the girls recruited to the trade were often the daughters of print workers . |
| 11 | There were now no badges of rank to be seen . |
| 12 | All of them , to only slightly varying extents , were inevitably the prisoners of history . |
| 13 | Bags of rubbish from the ga there were n't no bags of rubbish in the garden . |
| 14 | Just over 100 years ago in 1890 , George Eastman , the bank clerk who turned his hobby into a world-wide business , bought the land in what were then the fields of North West London . |
| 15 | It was only the actions of passer-by David Price and PC Len Bains that saved them . |
| 16 | Whatever the Dersinghams had skimped on , it was not the accoutrements of death . |
| 17 | He worked hard as a stevedore on Sharpness docks , but it was still the thrills of life that kept him really alive . |
| 18 | It was probably the deaths of Ecgberht in Kent c . |
| 19 | Furthermore , decided the experienced landlord , if that was n't the fumes of brandy on his breath he did n't know his own business . |
| 20 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |