Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven schools were to manage their own finances , all items were delegated except school meals , premises maintenance , school transport and loan charges . |
| 2 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 3 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 4 | Many of the Kiwis were playing their first rugby for several weeks , and in the early part of the game it showed . |
| 5 | In the case of the last round of the Young Cook of Britain competition , to be judged on 17 October , regional finalists were asked which famous person they would like to cook for . |
| 6 | Mum was leading the chorus and us kids were singing our own dirty ditties . |
| 7 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 8 | Republican communist parties and local branches were to determine their own fate , but all CPSU property was to be put under the control of local soviets . |
| 9 | He said the Iranians were giving their fellow Shias plenty of support , including weapons and transport . |
| 10 | While this does not prove that the first group of subjects were using their left hemisphere and the second group their right hemisphere the results are at least consistent with such a supposition . |
| 11 | The cocoa-brown eyes were scanning her bewildered expression , and a glint of gentle amusement crept into the steady scrutiny . |
| 12 | At these concerts many of Bach 's symphonies , concertos , cantatas , chamber works , and keyboard sonatas were given their first performances . |
| 13 | By the time that the Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts were producing their two excellent booklets on the reuse of railroad stations in 1974 and 1975 , only one per cent of all inter-city travel was by train . |
| 14 | Training the sexual instinct cut against purity 's criminalizing strategy , at the moment when purists were achieving their maximum effect in legislation . |
| 15 | Born near Kiev in 1893 , while his American-naturalized parents were visiting their Russian homeland , Mischa Levitzki was sent at seven to Poland 's Alexander Michalowski ( renowned for insistence on a solid technical foundation ) before continuing with Stowjowski in New York and Dohnányi in Berlin . |
| 16 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 17 | If all industrialized countries were to increase their overseas aid to the 0.7 per cent of GNP recommended by the United Nations , it would cost an extra $50 billion a year . |
| 18 | This is a time period which witnessed rapid change in all spheres of life ; following the migrations ( Arnold 1984a ) rural communities were expanding their social and political networks to form the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms . |
| 19 | During the eighteenth century this duty devolved on their deputies , the Sixty Clerks , and by around 1800 suitors were employing their own solicitors . |
| 20 | His argument was that miners were abusing their personal fuel allowance by removing large amounts to sell . |
| 21 | Most of the Marines were experiencing their first combat , and the strain of combating the fear as much as their enemies was telling on their pale faces . |
| 22 | French warships anchored in Beirut bay and French troops set up their first encampment at Khalde , where Beirut international airport now stands — and where the US Marines were to establish their own doomed military headquarters 122 years later . |
| 23 | Until then , every studio had a cast list of thirty or forty top-billing actors and actresses and dozens of contracted young people who were provided with their acting lessons , their dance lessons , their speech lessons , and the young directors were given their directorial tests , and they all went into bat often . |
| 24 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 25 | At the same time as these directors were making their classy films , there were many other directors churning out the cinema of workmanlike entertaining pictures . |
| 26 | Thus his conduct very well illustrates the maxim ‘ Look before you leap ’ ; and if his final decision was made when the trend of circumstances was making it harder to leave home , he might well have recalled ‘ He who hesitates is lost ’ . |
| 27 | If software applications were to include their own specific operating systems they might well be more efficient , but they would be unwieldy , expensive to develop and could not interact with other applications or with the variety of computer hardware designs . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the German fighter pilots were making their own claims ; Lt.Willi Kothmann of I/JG 27 claimed one Hurricane at 1700 ( probably Ayre ) , the only claim to be made by pilots of this unit over Malta during 1941. 7/JG 26 then arrived and Fw . |
| 29 | One year later there was some indication that the control sample carers were finding it harder than the action sample to talk in terms of a simple preference for home care . |
| 30 | My Trial , Cave and the Bad Seeds were staging their own dilapidated equivalents to ‘ By the Time I Get to Phoenix ’ and ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ , in the gently obliterating , slowly gathering , morose grandeur of ‘ Sad Waters ’ and ‘ Stranger Than Kindness ’ . |