Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 2 | In the schools there was concerned doubt about what to do for best , whether to integrate or segregate , and in some quarters the hesitant activity seemed to be salvation through Art and Crafts . |
| 3 | The high dose of TAGH , when used in the cell culture system , did not induce DNA synthesis , but in contrast there was a substantial decrease ( by greater than 90% ) in amino acid incorporation into protein ( data not shown ) , showing that at those concentrations there was local toxicity to the whole cell . |
| 4 | He assured fans there was greater stability at the club and exciting plans for the future . |
| 5 | In cases where MPRP members had stood as opposition candidates there was some confusion over the exact allocation of seats , but according to the elections commission , the MPRP won 357 seats , and the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League won nine seats . |
| 6 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 7 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |
| 8 | For Seldes it was contemporary drama that had been to blame , for it had encouraged the young movie industry to take ‘ the slice of life ’ as its subject-matter . |
| 9 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 10 | The Democratic Convention of Romania ( DCR ) , a centre-right 18-party coalition , performed well in urban areas , while in rural areas there was strong support for the incumbent President , ex-communist Ion Iliescu , and for the Democratic National Salvation Front ( DNSF ) which nominated him . |
| 11 | In the more vulnerable areas there was serious depopulation as villages were abandoned . |
| 12 | and i it was n't in all areas that the came back , I mean in some areas there was enough security but you would n't know which area was going to be secure . |
| 13 | On wetter areas there was seasonal pasture , marsh for fish and wildfowl , and still plenty of provision for hunting and gathering of natural resources . |
| 14 | In African countries there was less certainty as to what to do . |
| 15 | In these circumstances there was ample justification for the council to take the view that it was expedient in the general interests of the inhabitants to take such steps as were necessary to ensure compliance by the appellants with the laws of Sunday trading . |
| 16 | It was the first time in two decades that a British bike was beating the Japanese and for British biking enthusiasts it was stirring stuff . |
| 17 | For much of the past two decades it was Square City , the quaint , eccentric and often decidedly sick man of rock . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 19 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 20 | The public corporations — and especially the capital-intensive Electricity Boards — had , it is true , underpinned the sustained high level of both private and public investment spending in postwar years which was one option in a Keynesian strategy for the avoidance of slump and the maintenance of full employment . |
| 21 | Most days there was that colour spread from the shore to the sky , bigger than a horse trough . |
| 22 | In later days there was little love lost between Edom and Israel . |
| 23 | Saudi Arabian forces entered the city on Feb. 27 , but for days there was little evidence of the establishment of any effective central authority . |
| 24 | In those days there was little opportunity to hear Gospel preaching in Shropshire . |
| 25 | In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes . |
| 26 | In such places there was serious trouble . |
| 27 | During the UDI ( Unilateral Declaration of Independence ) years there was little love lost between the Smith regime and the university — indeed it was often referred to as ‘ the Kremlin on the hill ’ . |
| 28 | For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed . |
| 29 | A breed society was formed in 1919 to rescue the remaining 130 cattle and over the next 70 years there was considerable out-crossing to Friesian , Jersey , Shorthorn , White Park and no doubt other breeds as well . |
| 30 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |