Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I was given money to go to the chemist 's for bitter aloes or penny royal or a bottle of gin from the outdoor . |
| 2 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 3 | North-East drivers who were fined £100 and ordered to pay £20 costs for crossing the weight restricted bridge were : Brian Robinson , 54 , of Spennymoor , who had a ten tonne truck ; Terence Cuthbertson , 49 , of Chester-leStreet , 17 tonne truck ; Anthony Jennings , 48 , of Middlesbrough , 16 tonne truck ; Geoffrey Storey , 49 , of Spennymoor , 16 tonne truck ; George Agar , 32 , of Malton , 38 tonne truck ; John Layton , 36 , of Langley Park , 17 tonne truck ; Raymond Brown , 46 , of Redcar , 17 tonne truck ; Bernard Hagen , 56 , of Gateshead 17 tonne truck ; Neil Wall , 37 , of Bowburn , 11 tonne truck and William Davison of Choppington in a 16 tonne truck . |
| 4 | In a reported case the same year , Lorraine Agu and Malcolm Hirst were members of a group of animal rights supporters who were demonstrating slogans and distributing leaflets about animal rights on a spacious pedestrian precinct in Bradford . |
| 5 | To determine the range of oxygen saturation in healthy children in Nairobi , which is 1670 m above sea level , oximetry was carried out in 87 normal healthy children aged 7 days to 36 months who were attending child welfare clinics for immunisation . |
| 6 | In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union . |
| 7 | The Bohemians thought that in going to the halls they were confronting humanity , albeit on their own terms . |
| 8 | other words they were selling glass , and they were selling metal back to whatever and manufacturers to re-use but in terms of collecting and the cost of collecting it all and and |
| 9 | He was deeply influenced by the great aeronautical pioneers of the day , notably Kingsford-Smith and Ulm , whose epic flights in the southern hemisphere shone like the target indicators he was to introduce years later over Germany . |
| 10 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 11 | In due course he moved , like Dominic , to Bologna , from whose schools he was promoted chamber clerk to Pope Honorius III before 1224 . |
| 12 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 13 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 14 | He then announced a partial relaxation of the wage freeze imposed in the original package , but only for employees of companies which were making profits . |
| 15 | The same source also mentioned excess molybdenum in soils which was affecting cattle in the area . |
| 16 | ‘ Association ’ — the free and conscious formation of voluntary democratic societies for social defence and improvement — was the magic formula of the liberal era ; through it even the labour movements which were to abandon liberalism were to develop . |
| 17 | Through this vehicle there developed over the next decade a growing tendency to become more actively involved with movements which were advocating de-segregation and black civil rights in the Southern States . |
| 18 | Following the Act 's implementation , the proportion of defendants who were refused bail while awaiting summary trial declined for a time , and even though it rose thereafter , in 1999 it was still 1 per cent below the 1979 figure of 16 per cent . |
| 19 | Youngsters who were found jobs and then left to their own devices invariably ended up lonely and frustrated . |
| 20 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 21 | NOT so long ago , it was bankers who were telling businessmen what to do . |
| 22 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 23 | Somehow between them , however , they organised letters of introduction to naval captains who were to give Gould and Gilbert free passage whenever possible , to ‘ persons of influence ’ in general ; and to the Governors of South Australia , Western Australia , New South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land ( now Tasmania ) . |
| 24 | In the neutral zone between the two countries there were estimated reserves of 5,000 million barrels , a strong economic incentive for reunification . |
| 25 | On the other hand , he said ID cards were ridiculous and confirmed what fans had known for years that they were ill- treated by uncaring clubs who were allowing grounds to fall into disrepair . |
| 26 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 27 | Accordingly , it was the duty of the solicitors who were instructing counsel to make this claim and who , in correspondence , had evinced an intention to seek an order for costs against the local authority because of the supposed failure of the local authority to discharge its duty properly , to provide for the court a detailed statement of those costs ; moreover , to prepare that statement with proper care . |
| 28 | erm from yesterday er I think meself personally I 'm very methodical sort of person and I felt what was most important the revelations meself was thought patterns and the use of most structured structured in a presentation and also the importance I could n't believe how that using them made such a difference actually to yourself when you 're standing there and the audience participation erm thought patterns well I 've always used that was just a revelation I mean I 've never |
| 29 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |
| 30 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |