Example sentences of "were [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were permission refused … ’ |
| 2 | yeah well um I do n't know , maybe she grew up when there were y'know smoking was surrounded by rather different attitudes . |
| 3 | She also knew that some of her preferences were base in the extreme , and that her affection for Peter de Salis sprang at the first most ignobly from his delightful name . |
| 4 | Every one of the dairy farmers expressed concern in particular those who had purchased a farm in the past two or three years and were dairying in order to repay the purchase loan . |
| 5 | Even more especially if they were hydrogen bombs . ’ |
| 6 | Whether they were missiles or bombs was not disclosed : what was disclosed was that they were hydrogen devices , each one in the monster megaton range , twelve to fifteen megatons . |
| 7 | When the Socialists came to power in 1981 their priorities were creativity and decentralisation without neglecting the work on the major construction projects . |
| 8 | The refusal of Erastus to derive the forms of bodies from the stars , or from anything within nature , pointed toward the empiricism of Bacon , for whom the only guides to knowledge were experience and the bible . |
| 9 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 10 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 11 | They were story-book pictures . |
| 12 | ‘ The qualities required in the Chairman and members were tact and sound judgement rather than energy and administrative ability , ’ he told the Cabinet . |
| 13 | Roy 's trombone features included the little known Nobody Else But Me and I 've Grown Accustomed To Her Face , and John 's solo spots on baritone sax were Stardust and Duke 's Ive Got It Bad and That Ai n't Good . |
| 14 | Why were the offices of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign illegally searched , and why were Defence Campaign staff arrested practically on site as they tried to enter the estate ? |
| 15 | One such was General Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr , president of the republic from 1968 until 1979 , when he was succeeded by his kinsman Saddam Hussein ; others were Defence Minister Adnan Khairallah and Saddam 's half-brother Barazan , head of the Mukhabarat , or Internal Intelligence . |
| 16 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 17 | They really were part of the unquestioned reality of the culture of the state . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you were part of the set-up there . ’ |
| 19 | with one exception , all [ scholars ] contacted have expressed strongly that the service did not appear to see the practical relevance of university training , did not know how to exploit the benefits gained by the individual and in many cases showed noticeable coolness to those who were part of it . |
| 20 | Helmets exemplified this ‘ new status ’ for ‘ real polises ’ , for they were not worn in the city force , but were part of the apparel of the surrounding Northumberland County force , whose immediate boundary was only some three miles north of our divisional centre . |
| 21 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 22 | To provide some much-needed improvement the InterCity director decided to transfer ten HSTs to the Midland — five from the Great Western , two from the East Coast main line plus three which were part of the build for the Cross Country ( North East-South West ) routes . |
| 23 | This represents a much narrower view of the subject than was common in the early days of institutional literary study , when works of history , biography , philosophy , and divinity were part of the canon . |
| 24 | Contacts : yes , these , as I was to discover , were of prime importance : they were part of the game . |
| 25 | After a hearing in 1976 , the Chief Commons Commissioner found that the road verges were part of the highway , and so did not fall within the definition of ‘ common land ’ in section 22(1) of the Act . |
| 26 | The plaintiffs claimed that certain grass verges were part of the manorial lands of the manor and wished to re-litigate the question of whether the road verges were part of the highway . |
| 27 | The plaintiffs claimed that certain grass verges were part of the manorial lands of the manor and wished to re-litigate the question of whether the road verges were part of the highway . |
| 28 | Sir David Alliance , Coats chairman , said the sales were part of Coats ' continuing policy of disposing of peripheral activities that do not fit in the long term strategy of the group . |
| 29 | Of course , these developments were part of a wider process common to many countries . |
| 30 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |