Example sentences of "they [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were nothing but an excuse for idleness ; twelve hours being too many for a man to work underground without intermission . |
| 2 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 4 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 5 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 6 | ‘ In any event the system whereby I signed a book full of blank cheques in advance of you writing and issuing them was somewhat of a farce . ’ |
| 7 | In this connection it is significant that the main 1979 survey showed that , if people themselves have not decided to start with which type of credit arrangement they were going to use ( in their most recent major credit transaction ) the most common source of suggestion for them was someone in the shop . |