Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was eight years Lewis 's senior , and a woman of high intellectual abilities . |
| 2 | The post , in the Lending Services Division , has been filled by Mrs Jill McBride , BA , ALA , who comes to NLS from East Lothian District Council 's library service where she was Bibliographic Services Librarian . |
| 3 | Yeah we were four days drive from the Grand Canyon . |
| 4 | they were all police things more or less |
| 5 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 6 | An ancient , female look passed between them ; they were poor women pensioners , planets round a male sun . |
| 7 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |
| 8 | They were several weeks journey from London , but towns like Liverpool or York were several days journey from London , so that the colonists might feel distant but not uniquely isolated from the metropolis , and had closer ties with it than many parts of the English countryside . |
| 9 | Accompanying them were two police officers to look after the security arrangements . |
| 10 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 11 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 12 | Lady McCollum , chairman of the watchdog body , said the completion of the Single Market and the fact that trade was crossing new borders meant it was crucial consumers interests were not overlooked . |
| 13 | It was six years Peter mentioned ! |
| 14 | Carter and the Shah met again for the second and final time only a few weeks later , It was New Years Eve in Teheran , Carter was on a hectic world swing and Teheran was a convenient resting place between Warsaw and New Delhi . |
| 15 | if , if , if it was three quarters water er human 's must of been in the water to start with |
| 16 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 17 | I knew it was 2 midlands clubs , and that West Brom were involved … did nt realise it was stoke tho . |
| 18 | Taking over the brothel-like SW1 Club , it was Manc yobboes night out as half of the Hacienda descended on London . |
| 19 | He said he was sure Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would approve of what was happening in Germany , and believed France and Britain , who had given such support during the long and difficult years as well as ‘ our East European neighbours ’ would understand . |
| 20 | He was nine years Wyatt 's senior , and the official letter of appointment from Stanley , vesting Scott with the overall control of the project , would accord with Wyatt 's reputation as an expert on decoration and ornament , rather than as an executive architect . |
| 21 | James Lamb as Mayor — he was thirteen times Mayor of Rye — had with his jurors to ride out through the wild windy night to rescue his royal guest for whom he gave up his own bedroom . |
| 22 | But he was temporary books editor while his boss was on holiday , so he could manage to fix something . |
| 23 | By 1910 he was outdoor goods manager for the large southern division of the L&NWR and a year later became assistant to the general manager , Sir Frank Ree . |
| 24 | He was senior gynae reg and his wife was a physiotherapist … ’ |