Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scythemakers were found in the north Worcestershire parishes of Belbroughton , Chaddesley Corbett and Clent , the lockmakers worked mainly in Wolverhampton and its chapelries of Wednesfield and Willenhall , and the bit makers were mostly Walsall men . |
| 2 | The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins , the goalkeeper . |
| 3 | The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins , the goalkeeper . |
| 4 | These kind visitors received animals that were not Mickey Mouse . |
| 5 | The three men on the three-week course , who were riding BMW K100s , were already Kent motorcycle patrol officers . |
| 6 | These were the Nicaraguan Social Christian Party ( PSCN ) and the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) , whose presidential candidates were respectively Erick Ramírez Benavente and Eduardo Molina ; the Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement ( MAP-ML ) ; the Social Conservative Party ( PCS ) ; the Independent Liberal Party for National Unity ( PLIUN ) ; the ( Trotskyist ) Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) ; the moderate Movement of Revolutionary Unity ( MUR ) with Moisés Hassan as its presidential candidate ; and the Central American Unionist Party ( PUCA ) . |
| 7 | Their replacements were respectively Gerardo Bianco , Virginio Rognoni , Giovanni Marongiu , Franco Piga and Vito Saccomandi . |
| 8 | Milton 's prompt offer of assistance , however , had deflected the criticism from the Argyll party itself , and Mrs. Mary happily was able to report that those who were once Sir James Campbell 's friends ‘ continues firm in their good wishes to my Chief and Lord Milton , those two healths is often drunk without naming their Member ’ . |
| 9 | There were more Goblin tribes still loyal or too afraid to desert , but even they were few compared to the great days of conquest . |
| 10 | Much US media interest in the summit was taken up by the issue of whether there were still US prisoners of war alive in the former Soviet Union and whether information was available on US soldiers declared missing in action ( MIA ) . |
| 11 | Many of them had worked closely with President Mikhail Gorbachev and five were still CPSU members . |
| 12 | Once in power , the armed forces immediately abolished all state institutions and established in their place the non-military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) and a Cabinet , most of whose members were also SLORC members , both of which were headed by Saw Maung . |
| 13 | Some of the Morals group were also Queen Bees , some were Daughters of Scotland and strict Presbyterians ; the United Church itself — how could she attend it now ? |
| 14 | The composition of the leadership confirmed the close co-operation between the SACP and the ANC , many of whose policy-makers were also SACP members [ see p. 37176 for apparent rejection by Slovo of the party 's former " hardline " reputation ] . |
| 15 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 16 | The waterfall was surrounded by sweet-smelling trees that modern botanists say were probably Aquilaria sinensis . |
| 17 | If these men were often Paris graduates as well as graduates of Oxford or Cambridge , they at least knew the thought-processes and tactics of their French counterparts well . |
| 18 | I now know that these were really Powers-Sallmas cards and that this was the beginning of computer technique . |
| 19 | His patients were mainly Merseyside dockers and shipyard workers , and seamen injured at sea , and he had to deal with many severe accident cases . |
| 20 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 21 | Oh , to be sure , while you were out Ernest Kleiber telephoned . ’ |
| 22 | All the former Soviet republics except Georgia were now UN members . |
| 23 | Well they were n't York stone then were they ? |
| 24 | One or two people perhaps , but they did n't seem interested , and they were n't Tom Russell . |
| 25 | No Sat you used to work Fridays and I used to go out , no it were n't Saturday night |
| 26 | She liked this name because it was romantic and well-bred , which were precisely Willie Moe 's objections to it . |
| 27 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 28 | Although the telephone has become commonplace in most of our homes , and is essential to business , its principles are the same today as they were when Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876 . |
| 29 | ‘ The treatments for lung cancer today are no better that they were when King George VI died of the disease 40 years ago . |
| 30 | It seems likely that most of the Whessoe village cottages were where Burtree Lane meets Whessoe Road . |