Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The findings were that for a majority of the firms the variance of anticipations exceeded the variance of the realizations , which is inconsistent with the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 2 | This is slightly more than is predicted if the movement were that of a simple piston . |
| 3 | There was no fee involved for either of these speakers as they were each on the Establishment of the host Borough . |
| 4 | However , in 1988 those three boroughs were each among the top five increases in Labour share of the vote . |
| 5 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 6 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 7 | Peter had taken the flute from Tom , Tom was dancing with Alice and Jarvis capering with Jay , while Tina and Billy were half under the table in a clinch so tightly intertwined as to seem to make one person of them . |
| 8 | His three years at Cambridge were some of the happiest of his life and also the most normal . |
| 9 | The city banks ( Japan 's version of commercial banks ) were some of the worst culprits . |
| 10 | These , then , were some of the issues that took my time . |
| 11 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 12 | In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market . |
| 13 | Fishing ( for lobsters ) in the summer , coastguard duty , drivers , mechanics and power station workers were some of the occupations off the farm . |
| 14 | What were some of the pressures ? |
| 15 | The mass disfranchisement of thousands of citizens in local government , the disgraceful manipulation of constituency boundaries , the enforced political tests for government jobs and legislation , such as the Flags and Emblems Act , were some of the shackles on individual freedom which would never be tolerated in England . |
| 16 | These were some of the theories produced to argue that the rod was quite wrong . |
| 17 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 18 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 19 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 20 | Housing conditions in Greenock in JTR 's day were some of the worst in Britain . |
| 21 | Near to the landing-pier were some of the older houses of the town , and by climbing a steep street , the old castle may be leisurely inspected , and it quite merits a visit . |
| 22 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 23 | Generators out of action , ’ incomplete fire-fighting pumps , inflammable plastic in the ships and in the sailors ' clothing were some of the reasons , given . |
| 24 | André Previn 's 1970s recordings of the complete Tchaikovsky ballets were some of the happiest collaborations with the LSO , and ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ puts together nearly 150 minutes of well-chosen extracts from Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker . |
| 25 | ‘ Frenzied and totally ineffective bumbling ’ , ‘ drunken hysteria ’ and blind panic' were some of the less offensive phrases mentioned in the coroner 's court . |
| 26 | These were some of the instructions being given by the polemaster to the men on the ropes as the two ton pole began to shift . |
| 27 | These were some of the nine old age pensioners , dressed in building-site hard hats , who roam the Old Course . |
| 28 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 29 | Taxing work , determination , application , steadfastness , resilience : these were some of the qualities needed to make the grade as a sportsmen even at the more modest levels . |
| 30 | ‘ A long thin shank , a long heel , a peculiar patella , a stronger tendon of Achilles or larger adrenalin glands ’ were some of the attributes thought to enable blacks to dominate certain disciplines ( Henderson , 1949 , p.362 ) . |