Example sentences of "[pron] was [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
| 2 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 3 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 4 | The new youth movement found its most dramatic expression in the religious brigades , the first of which was the Boys ' Brigade ( BB ) , founded by William Smith in Glasgow in 1883 , followed by the Church Lads ' Brigade ( CLB ) in 1891 , and the Boys ' Life Brigade ( BLB ) in 1899 . |
| 5 | There follows a white villa which was the Jesuits ' summer house . |
| 6 | She was a women 's libber really , because she said they 'd tried to stop the pit brow lasses , but it never came off . " |
| 7 | Henley took quite an interest in her and she was the Ladies ' President from 1920–1925 . |
| 8 | ‘ She was the kids ' cat . |
| 9 | The officials included Squadron Leader Ian Sweet , who was the Championships ' Secretary and the race commentator ; Major Martin Leach , the technical delegate Mr Richard Berry , and PR consultants Colonel Geoffrey Godbold , and Major Hutch Hutchinson . |
| 10 | And let me tell you , if there was a women 's demonstration to protest against the machismo of the men in our country , I 'd be right there in the front ranks ! |
| 11 | There were ten hangings at Oxford from 1892 to 1952 , and two hundred years ago there was a women 's prison next door . |
| 12 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 13 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 14 | More important , there was a miners ' strike which resulted in the three-day week , comprehensive power cuts and enormous disruption . |
| 15 | There was a children 's outing that day and I 'm afraid it 's the old story . |
| 16 | There was no trekkers ' hut here , however basic ; just a shed for the kitchen and an uneven acre of soggy mountain meadow for our camp . |
| 17 | Er but of course there was no newspapers er printed at all then , and I 've got , there was a Churchill 's Paper , what did they call that ? |
| 18 | Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit . |
| 19 | Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford . |
| 20 | ‘ There was the parents ' estate , his father 's estate , the Doors ' estate — and they were all fighting . |
| 21 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
| 22 | Adjoining were two sleeping compartments containing bedsteads , each with its own lavatory ; and at one end there was an attendants ' compartment with folding bed and facilities for serving light refreshments . |
| 23 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 24 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 25 | The gleaming black exterior with the polished silver lamp-brackets and the forbidding curtains within that could be drawn to hide its occupants from prying stares told him it was a mourners ' carriage he had spent the night in . |
| 26 | Portia appears indeed in Act four to be just in her defence of Antonio , and no one can comment on her choice of suitor in Act three , for surely it was the suitors ' luck and character that were the key to her , or so it seemed . |
| 27 | The following year it was the inner-cities ' turn once again , especially Inner London . |
| 28 | It was the dancers ' last night so they were doused by Turner , the bone tech , armed with a high-powered water pistol , and wearing diapers . |
| 29 | It was the judges ' commitment to freedom that was the main guarantee against despotism . |
| 30 | But it was the scabs er that well they put us down to start with , and then the was picket line started cracking up was the these lads not prepared to do it . |