Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering techniques of smelting , fuel and raw materials , workers and their families , why were each of these recent decisions made ? |
| 2 | There were few of these in which did not float some ghastly , stinking fragment of humanity . |
| 3 | Equally naturally , in Scotland as elsewhere , there were few in this age of profound uncertainty who maintained an unchanging stance throughout . |
| 4 | In experiments carried out on the land , crop yields of beet and clover were half of those on the field treated with manure . |
| 5 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 6 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 7 | Marty is a liar : Gabrielle is a fool : Henry isa whinge : Alan had it all wrong ’ ( they were some of those he talked to ) . |
| 8 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 9 | Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 . |
| 10 | In the public gallery were some of those people who it 's alledged were victims of Mr How 's company . |
| 11 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps they were all at this well-attended W.I. meeting , where not only hats , but coats and fur stoles seems to have been the thing . |
| 13 | My thoughts were all on that . |
| 14 | And it was last August , last August Bank Holiday this was started , just before the Bank Holiday weekend when i cos we were all on that gates , Bank Holiday weeks , stopping all the traffic going in there Yea That 's how the know is , maybe if we 'd a gone back then and , yo you know , if he , he offered us to go back then about September . |
| 15 | I think that 's what was great about the Scottish explosion , we were all taking from each other , we were all in each other 's studios and there was a real community . |
| 16 | I think that 's what was great about the Scottish explosion , we were all taking from each other , we were all in each other 's studios and there was a real community . |
| 17 | Finnigan has demonstrated how misleading it is to describe ‘ primitive societies ’ as if they were all in some way ‘ dominated by kinship ’ ( Finnigan , 1970 , pp. 1 7 1–94 ) , and Laslett and his associates at Cambridge have shown how , in many ways , the composition of the family in pre-industrial England was similar to that of the family of today ( Laslett , 1965 ) . |
| 18 | There have been several examples of this recently , the main ones being the Zetland Order , the Orkney Order and the Ross and Cromarty Order , which were all in some degree similar and promoted by local authorities . |
| 19 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 20 | Conveyancing , divorce , probate and criminal matters concerning adults were all in this category . |
| 21 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 22 | The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro . |
| 23 | ‘ They were all like that in her day . |
| 24 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 25 | They were all like that you know . |
| 26 | Whilst there were many at this level of farming there were also those who were struggling to get going . |
| 27 | These were mostly artificers , labourers or servants , many of course being taxed only on wages , as were many of those assessed at nil in the musters ; the status of any who were later taxed on wages is obvious , while those never assessed at all almost certainly included the unemployed and , probably , vagabonds and beggars . |
| 28 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 29 | They used to sell cut-corned beef at 2d a quarter pound , broken biscuits for 6d a pound , there were many of these in the days before packaging . |
| 30 | For there were many in that land who had taken their magical researches too far and into whose souls darkness entered . |