Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local schools were again in evidence at the Central Region Youth Orchestra concert in the MacRobert in March , part of a series of concerts , drama and other events organised by them as part of the Jubilee . |
| 2 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 3 | In these cases the clients were often in hospital at referral and were either physically or mentally too frail or ill to be discharged . |
| 4 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 5 | British parties were much in evidence , pursuing climbs like Pic Coolidge via the South Ridge ( F ) from the Temple Ecrins hut for the views , and Les Bans by the E.N.E. Ridge ( PD/PD+ ) from the Pilatte hut — what Collomb claims is ‘ One of the best general mountaineering routes in the park . ’ |
| 6 | In practice such doubts were totally without substance . |
| 7 | The majority of branches were still in existence , though without any co-ordinating machinery . |
| 8 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 9 | Using the terminology reminiscent of contemporary descriptions of madness ( cf. those by the thirteenth-century encyclopaedist Bartholomaeus Anglicus ) Hoccleve relates what others said of him : that he was incapable of sober reasoning , that his brain was buckish , that his gait was like a roe 's , darting hither and thither , and that his eyes were constantly in motion . |
| 10 | It was big and fleshy and the vultures had n't touched it — even the eyes were still in place . |
| 11 | Perhaps she was n't really a dragon … but then again , dragons were often in disguise , were n't they ? |
| 12 | Show quality animals were also in demand . |
| 13 | Henry Salt , writing at the end of the nineteenth century when laws protecting animals were firmly in place , complained that , |
| 14 | Only their lips were yet in contact . |
| 15 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 16 | Fortunately , in the cooler weather of late September , the scarlet geraniums in the window-boxes were still in bloom , but the mosquitoes seemed to have wilted . |
| 17 | The total replacement cost , if the books were still in print , would be £800 , Cleveland County Council 's community development committee was told . |
| 18 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 19 | This local firm built and repaired motor cars and motor bicycles ; and it was not long before this stocky , young man with an engaging smile and tousled , fair , ginger hair that was forever falling into his eyes was completely at home in the workshops . |
| 20 | Distribution of food assistance by local relief organizations was reportedly under way in mid-January , although distribution was still facing difficulties at the end of the month . |
| 21 | In Angola a programme co-ordinated by the UN to deliver 110,000 tonnes of food to 1,900,000 people affected by war and drought in nine central , southern and eastern provinces was barely under way due to poor donor response — by mid-December it was reported that only Switzerland and the Netherlands had made donations . |
| 22 | The revolutionary technology that it was claimed would revitalise the world 's failing eco-systems was already on stand-by . |
| 23 | Communication with these schools was largely by post , and sometimes by telephone . |
| 24 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 25 | And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children . |
| 26 | Richard 's parents were also in favour of this proposal as they were not very keen on their son entering the Christian Ministry . |
| 27 | Their customary brilliance was still seen in bursts but schoolboy blunders were also in abundance and a lack of concentration in defence left goalkeeper Ally Maxwell exposed far too often . |
| 28 | The day Station Guide Tricia Connor brought her baby son Gregor in to meet her colleagues , the Ukrainian visitors were also on hand , so baby Gregor was introduced to them . |
| 29 | Mark Blair headed Omagh 's third goal before half-time and the visitors were well in control . |
| 30 | On scores , Colin Martlew 's 21–12 was the best that Merseyside could manage , and there was a 21–13 from Roy Lussey , but on the day , the visitors were always in command . |