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 | The first dinosaurs were also flesh eaters , stalking and killing paramammals and crocodilian . |
| 5 | Those who received them as school-leavers were equally discontent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The songs were still shit . |
| 8 | Books were frequently part of ‘ non-monetary ’ exchanges . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even the decline which came in later centuries was only relative . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even in 1989 , school teachers in areas where Contras were still operating were threatened with violence if they continued to work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some of her nails were still silver , Lee noticed , and some were so clear that she could see the blood through them . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Texts were inevitably part of their culture , as were the individuals who wrote them under the shaping constraints of state , family , religion . |
| 21 | Technicians were frantically operating systems . |
| 22 | Many flocks were now lambing twice per year . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 24 | One source of authority on such matters was also royalty . |
| 25 | The custom — like that of the maypole — was revived in some areas , but at Cragg Vale in the nineteenth century , adornment of the springs was never part of the celebrations . |
| 26 | When she had subsided , and we had recovered from our surprise at this outburst , we asked her whether the small and large hominids were strictly savannah species or whether they spent much of their time in forests . |
| 27 | The parts for the full-sized robot were cast in epoxy and aluminium powder with steel ribbing for strength ; the pieces were then chromium plated . |
| 28 | These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production . |
| 29 | Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics , and were commonplace in big Whig and Tory families in the early nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Indeed , the nineteenth century English philosopher , Herbert Spencer , had already constructed theories of human society based on Darwin 's evolutionary ideas and his writings were again part of Park 's reading . |