Example sentences of "[det] were [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class .
2 In experiments to study the mechanism of 5HT induced alterations of ileocolonic function , atropine and several 5HT receptor subtype antagonists were given intraperitoneally 60 minutes before the laparotomy ; these were atropine suphate ( 0.14 mmol/kg , Elkins-Sinn , Cherry Hill , NJ ) ; methylsergide ( 2.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 1 and 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Sandoz Research Institute , East Hanover , NJ , USA ) ; ketanserin ( 1.83 mmol/kg , a 5HT 2 antagonist donated by Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc , Beerse , Belgium ) ; R-zacopride ( 2.5 mmol/kg , a selective 5HT 3 antagonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) , and SC53116 ( 2.4 mmol/kg , a 5HT 4 agonist donated by Searle , IL , USA ) .
3 These were cheque no 000075 for £10.98 and no 000076 for £829.83 .
4 But these were grassroots reggae music , and ‘ Catch A Fire ’ represents the first time that Marley — or indeed any reggae artist other than Jimmy Cliff — had ever been given the budget that a rock band got to record an LP .
5 These were market situation , work situation and status situation .
6 These were Cypripack plastic media which Cyprio offer as a cheaper alternative to foam ( which they say is 3 to 8 times better than most plastic media ) .
7 Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets .
8 Unfortunately many were trade union members who lost their jobs and have not retained their union membership so have been lost to our organization .
9 Those were pancake roll .
10 Although the Oregon Health Commission made strenuous efforts to involve the public , two-thirds of those attending the meetings were graduate educated professionals , and 60 per cent of those were health care workers .
11 That were prentice money . ’
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