Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1928 when the vote was granted to women over 21 , the two sisters had ceased to communicate with each other — their ideas and lifestyles were now poles apart . |
| 2 | As a nation , the Germans were far more formal dressers than the British : the only people around the centre of Osnabrück not wearing ties were obviously foreigners by the rest of their dress . |
| 3 | They added that the foreigners were not hostages ‘ in the normal sense of the word ’ but merely ‘ unable to move because of the rebel presence ’ . |
| 4 | Their heads were only inches apart . |
| 5 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 6 | But its governors of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries were certainly administrators and soldiers , not settlers , and they returned to their English , French or Savoyard estates . |
| 7 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries covers were often boards in the true Anglo-Saxon sense , being of oak or beech covered with leather . |
| 8 | Doctors told the 28-year-old that the five slashes were just millimetres away from cutting his jugular vein . |
| 9 | To Tilda , however , the fine pictures were only extensions of her life on board . |
| 10 | Many of the urban craftsmen were also zimmi . |
| 11 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 12 | Its interests were imperial and its speakers were always men of distinction : members of the Cabinet , colonial Governors and the like . |
| 13 | Other instances offered as giving rise to meritless acquittals were where protestors invaded military bases or private farmlands . |
| 14 | Kings had ‘ possessions ’ and ‘ subjects , ; the majority of subjects were not citizens and had no automatic rights . |
| 15 | It was hard to tell because his face was masked with ribbons of caked blood , and his eyes were just slits in a puffy mess of red and black bruises . |
| 16 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 17 | Farriers were basically shoeing-smiths who had acquired a rudimentary knowledge of equine diseases , which led them to become ‘ horse-doctors ’ . |
| 18 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 19 | His lips were only inches from hers when Rosa 's tap at the door made him lift his dark head . |
| 20 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
| 21 | Quite possibly because whatever she personally felt about Naylor Massingham , manners were still manners . |
| 22 | Furthermore , these months were usually periods of synthesis and discovery . |
| 23 | John Combes was obviously friends with a fine stonemason who would have done work at Wilton House and perhaps lived in Broad Chalke . |
| 24 | Many of these sites were not villages at all , but hamlets . |
| 25 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
| 26 | Her parents were not Parisians , they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage . |
| 27 | ‘ Both our parents were only children ; that 's why . |
| 28 | He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo . |
| 29 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |
| 30 | In Brompton Regis in Somerset an interesting seventeenth-century document shows us that what are now farmsteads were formerly hamlets of several separate farmsteads with tenements and cottages . |