Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 2 | Journalists were also the targets of violence in other countries such as Pakistan , India , Togo , Sudan and the USA . |
| 3 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 6 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 9 | FE students were more often than not financially squeezed , and books were not the priority . |
| 10 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The first I heard of my part in Talking Heads was when the script was pushed through my letterbox . |
| 14 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 15 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 16 | The residents ' associations were not the type of organization that would welcome such an alliance . |
| 17 | Indeed one of the main reasons for the failure of Marxists to make headway amongst the Latin American working classes is that labour organisations in many of these countries were originally the creation of the state . |
| 18 | But the Psalms were also the basis of private spirituality in the ninth century : Dhuoda recommended daily readings to her son . |
| 19 | Australians were still the butt of English condescension but he clearly came from a different mould from his fellow Australian Barry Humphries ' Private Eye creation , Barry McKenzie . |
| 20 | The confessional and moral articles were largely the work of the constitution 's architect , the then prime minister Eamon de Valera . |
| 21 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 22 | Gordon Kirk 's chapter ( 1.1 ) points to the variable controls over the curriculum from the centre that marked earlier historical periods ; the post-war tradition that curriculum matters were largely the subject of professional decision-making and the gradual reassertion of central influence and control over the curriculum since the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 24 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 25 | Charles hoped that George 's assumption was right , that Michael Banks 's difficulty in retaining the lines was just the product of laziness . |
| 26 | The reptiles are not monophyletic either , because the common ancestor of lizards and turtles was also the ancestor of birds and mammals . |
| 27 | Until recently , it appeared that 300 megabytes was probably the limit of the technology but now magnetic media enthusiasts are talking about gigabytes ( thousands of megabytes ) soon becoming commercially available . |
| 28 | Australia again provided the answer with Mitchelton 's elegant and keenly-priced ‘ 89 Late Picked Muscat ( Tesco , £4.19 ) , whose rich , sweet flavours were just the ticket . |
| 29 | In fact , the individuals who wrote the ‘ academic ’ pieces were often the people who drew the political conclusions ( e.g. Cohn , 1967 ; Lutzhoft , 1971 ; Poliakov , 1974 ) . |
| 30 | The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University . |