Example sentences of "[coord] were the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he still handcuffed or were the handcuffs off ? |
| 2 | Did the postwar development of the welfare state remould capitalism to give it a more human face , or were the changes largely cosmetic ? |
| 3 | Whilst he was chasing girls ( or were the girls chasing him ? ) and always looking for an easy pound or two , I was deeply concerned by the deteriorating political situation . |
| 4 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
| 5 | Happy coincidence , or were the magnets responsible ? |
| 6 | Was that a collective decision by the Tory party or the Cabinet to raise false expectations or were the Ministers acting in a freelance capacity ? |
| 7 | Was truancy a symptom of wider emotional problems , or were the schools failing to provide education appropriate to these young people 's needs and interests ? |
| 8 | And you probably wondered what was on fire or were the spaceship had landed . |
| 9 | Or were the knives sent to a random group of people to confuse the hunt for either the killer or the hoaxer ? |
| 10 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 11 | Nor were the psychiatrists much better . |
| 12 | Nor were the Russians always spoiling for a fight . |
| 13 | Nor were the commons some kind of pastoral socialist Utopia , open to all comers . |
| 14 | American legislators were not noted for their abstemiousness , and nor were the denizens of London Society . |
| 15 | Nor were the Attercliffe gypsies the only people who misled the enumerators through fear , ignorance or simple forgetfulness . |
| 16 | Nor were the Americans merely interested in bomber bases in Britain . |
| 17 | Nor were the adherents of this strategy reticent about their heritage , with one Thatcherite Cabinet Minister acknowledging in 1982 , ‘ I am a nineteenth century Liberal . |
| 18 | Especially problematic was the fact that the informal and formal networks never came together nor were the views and opinions of the informal network adequately appraised by the formal care givers who had the responsibility for overall coordination . |
| 19 | Nor were the Germans much amused by M. Mitterrand 's initial coolness towards reunification and his trip to Mr Gorbachev in Kiev in December 1989 to try to stop it . |
| 20 | Nor were the paintings on the amphora of a kind any museum would dare put on display . |
| 21 | Nor were the levels of resources available enough to pay for the increased skills needed for the more complex requirements of local administration . |
| 22 | Nor were the fans happy with the referee 's decision . |
| 23 | No leakages were permitted at any points nor were the canvas sides allowed to bulge inward to any greater extent than that caused by the slackness of the canvas specified on the drawing . |
| 24 | The rooks came out to mob him but they were nothing , nor were the Men . |
| 25 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 26 | Nor were the textbooks on engineering , navigation , physics , and design technology . |
| 27 | The complete results were not released , nor were the names of defeated candidates ; it was officially claimed that 503 candidates took part . |
| 28 | Neither child was injured , and nor were the cars damaged . |
| 29 | They became the instructors of the Brahmins and were the progenitors of Sun worship itself . |
| 30 | The gallery above the ramp is divided into five distinct spaces for the Impressionist paintings inspired by Renoir and dating from after 1940 , the ‘ vache ’ paintings which occupied the artist briefly in 1948 and were the subject of a recent reassessment by Bernard Blistene , Director of the Musées de Marseilles , the rock or stone paintings , an important selection of gouaches and works on paper , and Magritte 's painted bottles and other objects . |