Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 2 | Karrimor were showing their re-designed range of Baltoro waterproofs which combine Gore-Tex with a light , soft and reputedly hard-wearing 2 ply Ferrara face fabric . |
| 3 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 4 | The South West Vineyards Association was having its annual fling , and checking the competition as well . |
| 5 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 6 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 7 | As the majority of these nations became independent between 1960 and 1962 , a fair bench mark to take for Africa as a whole would seem to be the year 1961 , a time when the continent was beginning its modern period of self-rule . |
| 8 | Yesterday the Royal Mail was keeping its own counsel about this hot literary topic . |
| 9 | Linda 's confusion was bringing her close to tears . |
| 10 | At worst it could conclude that the Home Office pianist was doing his best and need not be shot . |
| 11 | Creggan was doing his best to ignore Woil , who he did not trust or like . |
| 12 | The purpose of this study was to audit its clinical usefulness in patient management . |
| 13 | That Louis 's basic intention was to reassert his own control emerged in the immediate sequel to Attigny : he " sent Lothar to Italy " ; and he engendered another child by the Empress Judith . |
| 14 | The man in the car was making his last call . |
| 15 | Although Cézanne 's painting was profoundly original , his ambition was to use his own intensive study of nature to revivify classical or traditional painting ; the means he used , although they were highly personal , were founded on the optical discoveries of the Impressionists . |
| 16 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 17 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 19 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 20 | A different tactical response by the US asbestos industry was to export its hazardous production to other non-regulated peripheral countries such as Mexico and the South American countries , following earlier examples of asbestos companies who had moved to the southern US states to avoid higher insurance costs in the northern states . |
| 21 | Small wonder that the US marketing industry was finding it hard to sell the idea of the raisin as an all-day snack . |
| 22 | Given current power shortages and high interest rates , the NEDA was reducing its industrial growth target for 1990 to 5.1 per cent from 7.8 per cent . |
| 23 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 24 | A passage from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , relying on ideas from 1913 , hints how the poet was using his anthropological reading when discussing in an anthropological context the difference between imaginative understanding and lived experience . |
| 25 | It was the end of the afternoon , an east wind was chivvying its self-important way across the North Sea , the sun was losing its heat , and most people had gone home . |
| 26 | Mummy was bought them two fifty nine P . |
| 27 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 28 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 29 | I think our crucial criticism of the whole press release was that the , it was that the good news , if you like , that the council were doing something pro-active about food poisoning came secondary , was a secondary issue in the press release , the main , the main thing was the bad news , and it could have been turned round . |
| 30 | Mountain Equipment were showing their new range of four Voyager synthetic filled sleeping bags , made without any through stitching . |