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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 6 | Our battlefields were once a cathedral , silent until the congregation of mankind entered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 12 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 16 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 17 | Animals were only a story in the Book of Remembering . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who have n't a clue on what that job entails . |
| 24 | There were a lot of civilian girls there , wearing short , flared skirts and matching pants , and to see the way the men swung the girls up under their arms and even over their heads was quite an eye-opener . |
| 25 | But the same thing is meant by both , for a simple reason : the legal conceptualisation of these relationships was largely a matter of clothing fact with right . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 28 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Apparently his fellow jailbirds were also a tonic . |