Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third quarter of 1991 there were 5717 company insolvencies in England and Wales . |
| 2 | There were nineteenth century memoirs and occasionally they were quite revealing but it 's Lloyd George 's memoirs of the Great War , the First World War that set in many ways the modern pattern for old battles to be re-fought . |
| 3 | We were respectable Home Counties middle class , but nothing special , nothing to brag about . |
| 4 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 5 | I told you there were mini roast potatoes . |
| 6 | There were 525 ETA prisoners serving prison sentences thoughout Spain . |
| 7 | Equally , not all the big Healeys were Alpine Rally competitors or howling club racers , and British as the car was , the majority of the 17,700 or so MkIIIs that completed the series also went to the US , where the sun shone a bit more often . |
| 8 | Outside , doing their best to frighten the cat spitless with their howling , were fifty sledge dogs , each chained to a kennel , well separated to stop their most frequent game , that of tearing lumps out of each other . |
| 9 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 10 | Principal trading partners in 1989 were European Community countries and the United States . |
| 11 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 12 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 13 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 14 | There were 1948 tax receipts from the Municipal Corporation of Jaffa and rental agreements for the lease of land to the Royal Air Force . |
| 15 | Most of the women who attended the conference were Labour Party members . |
| 16 | There was communists , there was I M Ps , there were Labour Party men , and at that time there was a unity campaign . |
| 17 | ‘ You were suffering withdrawal symptoms , were n't you , Aurora ? |
| 18 | There were cape-backed trench coats , elegant frockcoats , and stiff white collars so reminiscent of the costume detail which stifled Keanu Reeves 's performance in Bram Stoker 's Dracula . |
| 19 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 20 | In 1991-92 there were 32 house fires in West Lothian caused by smoking materials . |
| 21 | The signal towers were tall observation posts eleven sazhens square . |
| 22 | By 1830 , the mill had passed from the Clissold family and was being run by Evans , Robson and Severs , who were London-based textile merchants . |
| 23 | For instance , if the hypothesis were that nation states pursue their own self-interest , then one could ask not only what is to count as a nation state and as pursuit of self-interest but also why these particular concepts were the ones chosen . |
| 24 | These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged . |
| 25 | There were eleven trustee companies in 1985 , mainly specialist subsidiaries of major banks . |
| 26 | The cucullati were strange twilight creatures flitting about in the under-growth and the skirtings of a house , but seen as a potent element of the life-force with their phallic hoods and the garments usually worn by small children . |
| 27 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 28 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 29 | It is evident from Table 27 that over the most recent two years — 1990 and 1991 — there were 2,147 pedestrian casualties of which more than one in four ( 26% ) were killed or seriously injured . |
| 30 | We were inside Success House looking out . |