Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the words were almost a line long and all looked the same . |
| 2 | The words were less a request than an order . |
| 3 | Domestic pets were not a part of Irish life ; animals were worked , not cosseted . |
| 4 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 5 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 6 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 7 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 8 | Our battlefields were once a cathedral , silent until the congregation of mankind entered . |
| 9 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of a blockade by Azerbaijan — itself a result of the dispute over Nagorny-Karabakh — which had forced the closure of pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan . |
| 10 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 11 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 12 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 13 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 14 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 15 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 16 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 17 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 18 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 19 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 20 | Animals were only a story in the Book of Remembering . |
| 21 | They loved the way acts like Hüsker Dü and The Minutemen ( so named because , in the beginning , all their songs were under a minute long ) made sharp , concise statements about love and life , without introducing dubious concepts ( that came much later ) . |
| 22 | FE students were more often than not financially squeezed , and books were not the priority . |
| 23 | The books were exactly the mixture as before , but the quantity of ingredients seemed to have doubled ( ‘ Dickens and Scott seem to breed year by year Kingsley and Thackeray always appear ’ to quote from ‘ Irrelevant Thoughts Which Intrude in the Night , soliloquy written by Nan Munn , one of the 15 ‘ sorters ’ ) . |
| 24 | Luz being the Spanish for ‘ light ’ , you might think this was a place famous for its luminosity , but Saint-Jean 's Luz has a grimmer origin , in the Basque word meaning ‘ marsh ’ , because the estuary of the river Nivelle on which the town stands was once a swamp . |
| 25 | In industrial relations within the major steel industry the most striking difference between the United States and Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undoubtedly the behaviour of employers ( Holt , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Thus marriage in his eyes was primarily the discharge of an obligation to his family and the nation , a task made all the more difficult by the immutable nature of the contract . |
| 27 | Selection procedures in general were rough and ready , perhaps because selection was scarcely the mot juste : oversupply of suitable candidates was not a problem for the Colonial Service until the 1930s , when years of misleading propaganda about difficulty of entry , combined with economic depression , had done their work . |
| 28 | Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who have n't a clue on what that job entails . |
| 29 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 30 | The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox . |