Example sentences of "[was/were] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 2 | More of interest were the many memorials to well-known Ascendancy families , the Carys , the Kirkwoods and the Shaws . |
| 3 | More damaging still were the many tales of the poor morale and ‘ hostile attitude ’ of the bombed-out population . |
| 4 | The main casualties of the reshuffle were the former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , former Defence Secretary Tom King , and former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke . |
| 5 | Its 120 passengers , among whom were the former Portuguese President António Eanes , and students , politicians and reporters from 21 countries , intended to lay a wreath at the site of the November massacre , the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili . |
| 6 | Among the critics were the former ministers Michael Jopling , Peter Bottomley , Michael Spicer and Tom King , as well as Winston Churchill . |
| 7 | Among those executed , several of whom had been detained before the " coup attempt " , were the former Air Force commander , Maj.-Gen. |
| 8 | Also accused were the former head of the state security police ( the Stasi ) , Erich Mielke , 84 , former Prime Minister Willi Stoph , 78 , former Defence Minister Heinz Kessler , 72 , his deputy Fritz Streletz , 66 , and the former regional party leader in Suhl , Hans Albrecht , 72 . |
| 9 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 10 | l THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Automatic ( WEA BYN 20 ) The Reid brothers ' leather-clad thrashers were the most punk of post-punk groups . |
| 11 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 12 | ‘ My doctor , ’ he said , ‘ has told me that because we are both very depressive types of people , perhaps because we know what life is about that I should n't meet people who were the same way as I am and get depressed about things . ’ |
| 13 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 14 | Council staff provided an estimate of the gap between rates payable in Scotland in 1990/91 and the rates that would be payable were the same system in place as is in England ( The Uniform Business Rate ) . |
| 15 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 16 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 17 | Mind I saw them in tt they were the same price in erm You Ca n't Go Wrong and tt the place opposite Woolworths in Caerphilly |
| 18 | But some types before in the beginning all Swatches were the same price |
| 19 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 20 | But , the breasts were the same price |
| 21 | They were the same price as the other ones the ones . |
| 22 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 23 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 24 | According to the map it was there , but the fact that the dwellings seemed half hidden by the trees and were the same colour as the desert gave me a tinge of doubt . |
| 25 | Whether the " British Stewards " and the " Cooks and Stewards ' Society " were the same organisation operating under different titles is not clear . |
| 26 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 27 | The low security inmates they 're talking about were the same type of inmates who were at Wymott prison and caused 36 million pounds of damage . |
| 28 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 29 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 30 | I believe these were the same greenhouses that suffered an attack later by G P Aird AFC when he ejected from Lightning XG332 on September 13 , 1963 following a double reheat fire warning . |