Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the l950s practically all maintained secondary schools were either grammar schools or modern schools . |
| 2 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 3 | The dominant religious beliefs among Sinhalese and Tamils were respectively Buddhism and Hinduism , but Christianity had made inroads into both ethnic groups . |
| 4 | Prolonged temper tantrums were not part of his personality . |
| 5 | The first dinosaurs were also flesh eaters , stalking and killing paramammals and crocodilian . |
| 6 | Those who received them as school-leavers were equally discontent . |
| 7 | The idea that humans had no direct moral responsibilities or duties to safeguard the welfare of animals was further reinforced in the seventeenth century by René Descartes ' mechanistic proposition that only humans possessed rational souls and feelings , and that animals were essentially automata devoid of conscious sensation . |
| 8 | His lips were not steel , but silk . |
| 9 | The songs were still shit . |
| 10 | Books were frequently part of ‘ non-monetary ’ exchanges . |
| 11 | The main occupation of the village throughout the centuries was obviously agriculture , but three quarries have been worked since Roman times , and the oolitic limestone is found in many local churches , including Beverley minster . |
| 12 | Even the decline which came in later centuries was only relative . |
| 13 | The survey , conducted by IBM and London Business School , also discovered that the main obstacle to progress for manufacturers was not government policies or interest rates but the ability to implement change quickly . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the action against the manufacturers was not time barred . |
| 15 | The appellants submitted that reimbursement of their outlays was not part of the consideration for their services , but the court did not accept that argument . |
| 16 | For those citing domestic responsibilities as the most important reason , specific responses were usually childcare demands and being the only wage earner in the family ( which also overlaps with financial difficulties ) . |
| 17 | He was wearing Maxim 's car coat over his thin shirt , but his shoes were still canvas and the ground beyond the fence was a mudpond laced with sharp lumps of concrete and old ironwork . |
| 18 | Yet if Leonard 's fleet feet were still part of his youthfulness , there were signs of bodily frailty ; he bore the only real wounds of the contest , a cut to the lip sustained early on and a more serious one over the left eye in the 11th round . |
| 19 | Even in 1989 , school teachers in areas where Contras were still operating were threatened with violence if they continued to work . |
| 20 | That Rooseveltian tag was much in the air as war ended , on both sides of the Atlantic , and it was a populist view for which Waugh , whose aspirations were unfailingly patrician , never hesitated to disguise his profound distaste . |
| 21 | Haeckel reconstructed the tree of life to give it a main trunk or stem with the human race at the top : all developments in other directions were merely side branches of little real importance . |
| 22 | Some of her nails were still silver , Lee noticed , and some were so clear that she could see the blood through them . |
| 23 | In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash . |
| 24 | Fred Pearce says that DoE scientists returned from Stockholm in 1982 ‘ convinced that Norwegian claims about acid rain were largely right and the righteous warnings from the generating board about scientific uncertainties were largely prevarication . ’ |
| 25 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 26 | Texts were inevitably part of their culture , as were the individuals who wrote them under the shaping constraints of state , family , religion . |
| 27 | They have now got superior 4 × 4 transmissions , diff locks and the rest , and doubtless would leave the Trooper literally standing when the chips were down off-road . |
| 28 | Technicians were frantically operating systems . |
| 29 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 30 | Many flocks were now lambing twice per year . |