Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] were [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Bruce and Sheila were here the other night we had fish she was on the table . |
| 2 | It will be recalled that Newcastle and Sheffield were also the universities which produced most uncited theses , and fewest highly-cited theses . |
| 3 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 4 | Protheroe and Latimer were n't the only people who had trouble tracking Culley down . |
| 5 | Marx and Engels were probably the first to demonstrate this so emphatically . |
| 6 | Poland and Ireland were therefore the two key points for the transformation of the European system of power , each a battering ram against the most backward and the most advanced Great Power , at opposite ends of Europe . |
| 7 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 8 | The only fact that now seemed beyond doubt was that Syria and Iran were obviously the two countries who were crucial to getting all the hostages released , whoever was actually holding them . |
| 9 | He went to the US because ‘ Goldsmith decided that if you wanted to be a capitalist the UK and France were not the places to be ’ . |
| 10 | Peter and Nona were not the only people planning to eat in the open air , because a coachload of school-children together with four teachers , all carrying packed lunches , had arrived to visit the Cutty Sark and then Gypsy Moth in its dry dock . |
| 11 | Bryant and Bradley were not the first to notice that poor readers were also insensitive to the sounds of words , but their study is the first to establish the causal connection between the two . |
| 12 | The malaise had spread countrywide however ; Coniston and Keswick were not the only mining regions to suffer inactivity . |
| 13 | Latimer and Neville were probably the dominant figures at court between 1369 and 1376 , and their influence over the king may well have been greater than that of John of Gaunt and his brothers . |
| 14 | Some of his old friends claim he also flirted with other women and Meli and Marje were not the only ladies in his life . |
| 15 | What infuriated not just the British and Americans , but also France 's five EEC partners was the manner in which , without consultation , de Gaulle announced a fait accompli " as though France were somehow the custodian of the Community 's purity " . |