Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 3 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 4 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 5 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 6 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 7 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 8 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |