Example sentences of "were [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were ex-members of the committees of poor peasants ( kombedy ) that had requisitioned in military style during War Communism , a style that lingered on . |
| 2 | Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’ |
| 3 | There were pictures in the mirrors of trees and flowers and rivers . |
| 4 | There were Buffons in the courts of the Bourbons and Catherine the Great . |
| 5 | There were doubles for the Teessiders in the colts 800 metres ( Fernando Whitworth 2:23.7 and Neal Cotton 2:29.0 ) , boys discus ( Stephen Birse 28.02m and Mark Earl 22.80m ) , youths hammer ( Wayne Gibson 53.96 metres and David Waller 41.52 metres ) , youths steeplechase ( Stephen Helm 4:37.8 and Glen Harland 4:51.0 ) and the youths 3,000 metres ( Kevin Mace 9:30.9 and Paul Bentley 9:39.8 ) while Barry O'Brien scored a double in the youths 200 and 400 metres and Ian Taylor in the shot and hammer . |
| 6 | Arising equally strongly from the findings of the poverty surveys , and out of the labour movement , were criticisms of the principles of 1834 as being inappropriate for the conditions of the 1900s in which the existence of involuntary unemployment was becoming difficult to deny . |
| 7 | According to the chronicler Thomas Walsingham [ q.v. ] he was one of a group of knights who were adherents of the ideas of John Wycliffe [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | At all three locations there were elements of the themes in community care to which Knapp draws attention . |
| 9 | When he finally stepped into the group and asked to join there were murmurs from the trainees at the blue sash he wore . |
| 10 | The confusion over the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935 did not help : there were uncertainties between the Ministries of Transport and Health , delay over necessary action and ineffectiveness once it had been taken . |
| 11 | There were telegraphs from the cabins of the upper channels to the engine room , in order to control the movement of the tanks . |
| 12 | This affected only a few thousand people , however , and on June 9 there were protests over the restrictions by Israeli employers whose businesses were threatened , forcing the authorities to lower the age limit to 25 and drop the 10-employee rule . |
| 13 | All of these were places of the gods into which he was absorbed in a continuous journey of existence for as long as eternity might last . |
| 14 | There were libraries in the lighthouses at Portnahaven , Rhuvaal and probably McArthur 's Head but I have not been able to find out what happened to them . |
| 15 | As there were lights on the backs of these boxes , the cars did not have stairhead lamps . |
| 16 | If there were changes in the terminals at the presynaptic side , they would have to be measured using the electron microscope , however , for they are not visible at light microscope magnifications . |
| 17 | For the rest of the decade automotive stylists were gods in the plants of the Big Three : Chrysler , Ford and General Motors . |
| 18 | Their opponents were teams from the Institutes of Bankers in Ireland and Scotland . |
| 19 | When Jarvis first rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit system , or BART , in San Francisco , there were carpets on the floors of cars and closed circuit television in operation . |
| 20 | The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) . |
| 21 | Breeze was glad to reach this haven of refuge , for she had an uneasy conviction that there were holes in the heels of both her stockings . |
| 22 | Since those who caused the most difficulty were Ukrainians in the provinces of Kiev and Voronezh , and since Ukrainians retained relatively recent memories of the days of Cossack freedom , it is likely that many of the rural dwellers who proved hard to handle were motivated by the belief that they could bring their emancipation nearer . |
| 23 | No reports were available for us to see , although there were files on the children in each area . |
| 24 | Major problems are found with the loss of ‘ hands-on ’ work by the planner himself or herself ; and there were comments on the difficulties in delegating and communicating the particular needs for information . |
| 25 | These were met by the disciplined , well-trained armies of the Phoenix King , many of whom were veterans of the wars with the Dwarfs . |
| 26 | He moved towards her , opening his arms , and I saw there were tears at the corners of his eyes . |
| 27 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 28 | The dogs and the rugs , and the water-colours upon the walls , one by Franca herself , were relics from the days before her marriage . |
| 29 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 30 | By 1644 , when he joined the parliamentary army , he and Thomas Gower had established their own Particular Baptist church in London and were signatories of the Confessions of Faith of 1644 and 1646 . |