Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland there were 42 reception areas , for Glasgow , where about 38,000 people were housed , the major schemes being at Linwood , Johnstone , Erskine and Kirkintilloch . |
| 2 | Thame , Oxfordshire , belonged to the Bishops of Lincoln who were great town planners . |
| 3 | Bill recalls that ‘ even on our honeymoon in Norfolk she was busy buying pieces of furniture ’ . |
| 4 | and erm the six shifts had erm Controller and generally speaking these were Heads of Department , the erm , the Mr who was Chief Education Officer at that time . |
| 5 | These dramatic increases in production intensified during or after World War Two : in Nigeria groundnut production tripled between 1938 and 1948 ; in Uganda coffee production also tripled in the 1950s ; in Zaire there were 800,000 cotton growers by 1950 . |
| 6 | He drove through the city in an armoured car , and in one area of Chicago there were 130 gang murders in one year . |
| 7 | Below the American embassy in Grosvenor Square there were two ELINT engineers and three FBI agents , plus Lou Collins of the CIA and FBI representative Patrick Seymour . |
| 8 | " Intelligent , respectable workmen " were engaged to do the tasks the women could not : which according to Miss Faithfull meant " lifting of the iron chases … the carrying of cases of weighty type … and the whole of the presswork " , By October there were nineteen women compositors in the office , several of them the daughters of master printers . |
| 9 | In Cramlington there were actual job losses for women in full-time employment . |
| 10 | In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) . |
| 11 | In 1,402 sets of pelagic drift nets in the Pacific there were 208 fur seals , 914 dolphins , 22 turtles , 539 albatrosses , 8,536 shearwaters , 25 puffins and 17 storm petrels . |
| 12 | For Winifred there were some hair ribbons too , and a book of tales by Maria Edgeworth ; for Young John , a halfdozen new brass buttons and a coloured alphabet book . |
| 13 | In Scotland too , apart from Edinburgh there were few women compositors . |
| 14 | During June there was increasing labour unrest . |