Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 2 | Some crimes were acts of protest , but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal . |
| 3 | For the Christian , as we have seen , wars were acts of pacification since they were fought to secure peace which depended upon justice . |
| 4 | They were objects of interest , to a degree even their crews did not understand . |
| 5 | However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis . |
| 6 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 7 | And there were photocopies of press coverage of the famous 1982 march on the Porton Down chemical defence establishment and on the activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association , including the famous quote from one Master of Fox Hounds advocating that horse-whipping a saboteur was , like beating his wife , a private matter . |
| 8 | Not only did Japanese stereos or Italian fridges add to the comfort of life , they were badges of rank , proof of one 's standing in the hierarchy of power . |
| 9 | ABSEILING , log-walking and rafting were part of Operation Challenge , a three-day adventure to develop team-building at Taubmans in Australia . |
| 10 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 11 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 12 | The court hearing which convicted both men was told by ex-Swindon manager Lou Macari irregular payments were part of soccer routine . |
| 13 | There were gasps of shock and admiration . |
| 14 | There were gasps of surprise from the men . |
| 15 | WHEN the new Irish Cup , presented by Belfast jewellers John H Lunn was unveiled at a reception in Bass Ireland there were gasps of awe — and rightly so ( writes Malcolm Brodie ) . |
| 16 | Both were sons of Opera musicians , both began as players in its orchestra , and they rose to become controllers of its music by 1740 . |
| 17 | In origin these were scraps of waste wood for fuel , and by the mid seventeenth century they had grown into a form of wage supplementation . |
| 18 | Some detainees had died in detention , the report added , among whom were prisoners of conscience who had been detained " for the non-violent exercise of their fundamental rights " . |
| 19 | I know people who were prisoners of war in Japanese camps during the second world war and who , even now , find it hard to talk about the abuse that they suffered . |
| 20 | Many of these were prisoners of war or internees and er we 're very happy to report that these got home after the war and we have many of them here today that were prisoners of war . |
| 21 | Many of these were prisoners of war or internees and er we 're very happy to report that these got home after the war and we have many of them here today that were prisoners of war . |
| 22 | In everything he said there were wisps of mockery . |
| 23 | There were houses of turf and stone close by the river , and sometimes they passed rowboats , but the flatboat was sailing up against a rock wall it could not scale . |
| 24 | There were houses of stone and thatch dotted in thorps and hamlets throughout the Circle , but there were also newer dwellings of hastily thrown up sod walls and heather roofs . |
| 25 | Most of the painters who came , except J. Farington , were birds of passage gathering ideas which they could incorporate in their future work , encouraged by the writings of Gray , Gilpin , West and many others . |
| 26 | Both were enemies of humanity . |
| 27 | Here and there where the ground was more open near the lake-edge there were signs of cultivation as though someone with crude implements had scratched and dug a little to encourage nature , already prodigal , to do better still . |
| 28 | There were signs of battle in the churned-up mounds of Saxon warrior chiefs , ravaged by tanks training for D-Day in the sandy heaths behind the village . |
| 29 | Again there were signs of change — of that same revolution in style that was sweeping the Above . |
| 30 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |