Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results were or little significance at the time . |
| 2 | The inclusion criteria were that all subjects were current residents of Busselton , aged between 40 and 65 years in December 1990 , had been randomly selected except for a deliberate male to female bias for the purposes of the sleep study , and serum available from 1969 and 1990 . |
| 3 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 4 | Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know . |
| 5 | Other uncontested stipulations were that any candidate for the CCD had to be " over 21 , a practising citizen and be elected in the election registry of Peru " . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that the general trends for the indigenous population of the Russian colony of Siberia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were that some individuals , mainly ‘ chiefs ’ or traders , adapted to the ways of their conquerors and became successful according to the standards of Russian society , while the mass of their compatriots , exploited by the Russian system and lacking any means of redress , fell increasingly into poverty and degradation . |
| 7 | Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis . |
| 8 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 9 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 10 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 11 | For Law , the issue was that many Unionists would in any case feel compelled to support Lloyd George and that he might command a large personal following in the constituencies ; it would be useful to capture him as Joseph Chamberlain had been captured in 1886 . |
| 12 | The consequence was that many authorities were too small and too poor financially to provide a good standard of service , to employ the requisite staff and provide the necessary specialized units . |
| 13 | The third distinctive feature of the dinosaurs was that many species grew enormously in size . |
| 14 | One consequence of this was that many stories were not really about events but merely reports or rewrites of speeches made by leading politicians at events . |
| 15 | An even more important feature was that many Europeans came not to administer but to settle permanently , which they did on a large scale in Kenya and Zimbabwe , smaller numbers also being found in Zambia and Tanzania . |
| 16 | The main impact of this measure was that many landlords used the freedom to evict allowed under decontrol to sell previously let properties into owner-occupation . |
| 17 | The real problem was that many students felt unable to ask for help when they were in difficulty . |
| 18 | The view of the hon. Member for South Down ( Mr. McGrady ) was that many things should be left as they are , but he accepted that savings could be made and changes ought to be made , although he did not explain how . |
| 19 | One of the consequences of the difficult situation in schools and the low pay was that many teachers left the profession , even to work in the informal labour sector , and some moved to other countries . |
| 20 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 21 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |
| 22 | The result of the enclosures was that many countrymen lost what little security they had formerly possessed , including the sense of belonging to a particular village or cottage . |
| 23 | The difficulty with restoring the former glories was that many bands had outpriced themselves . |
| 24 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |
| 25 | The irony was that many Nepmen had in fact been nurtured by the state during the harsh economic stringencies of War Communism . |
| 26 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 27 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 28 | The conventional view of his time was that all species were immutable and that each had been individually and separately created by God . |
| 29 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 30 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |