Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the engagement jewels were often bracelets . |
| 2 | Indeed since eight of the eleven cell members were not peasants , they probably fell easily into this view of their own roles . |
| 3 | Would any man in his senses invent a story of a bus crash in which 16,000 passengers were killed ? it is much more likely that these Old Testament numbers were faithfully copies out , despite the fact that they did not seem to make sense . |
| 4 | The larnaxes or burial chests were apparently imitations in clay of wooden chests . |
| 5 | The orthodox view was that the megalith builders were just savages quite incapable of surveying or having any finer thoughts than grubbing for food and feuding with other tribes . |
| 6 | The CSE boards were not university dominated . |
| 7 | Until 1986 Stock Exchange participants were either brokers , who acted on behalf of clients in buying and selling securities , or jobbers , who held stocks and shares and dealt with brokers as the market required , and acted rather like wholesalers of securities . |
| 8 | It seems likely that most of the Whessoe village cottages were where Burtree Lane meets Whessoe Road . |
| 9 | Because the money lenders were usually Brahmis , the effect of colonialism was to strengthen the caste system and place it firmly on a class basis . |
| 10 | The mean concentrations of L289 immunoreactivity in the tumour extracts were about 20% those detected with LW60 . |
| 11 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |
| 12 | Some inter-war newspaper firms were already conglomerates , too , through diversification into allied businesses such as newsprint production . |
| 13 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 14 | The similarities between caring and mothering , shifting power relationships between mothers and daughters , and issues of ‘ cross-sex caring ’ in relation to incest taboos were also areas for exploration in her interviews . |
| 15 | Riding on again , down the road which they thought would be the easiest route to the Fire Court , Fenella began to have the feeling that the twisty Tree stumps were not Tree stumps at all , but horrid , stunted living things and that malicious ancient eyes looked out from their depths . |
| 16 | Tent pegs were not cancer cells . |
| 17 | In fact village tribunal presidents were often relatives or allies of chief headmen , who usually controlled appointments of other headmen . |
| 18 | Even Jimmy 's early morning blues were not proof against that , and they eventually arrived back at base in a much better humour than when they took off . |
| 19 | If these apply and if , for example , the loans are redeemed using equal annual instalments of principal , then the revenue charge will be exactly the same as if an asset was depreciated using straight-line depreciation and any loan repayments were merely balance sheet transfers . |
| 20 | In view of this Robinson suggests that such double spit forms were originally baymouth bars which have been breached by waves in times of great storms . |
| 21 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 22 | Prolonged temper tantrums were not part of his personality . |
| 23 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 24 | In the fixed-commission mid-1960s , profit margins were about 25% on total revenue . |
| 25 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 26 | Eleven of the 23 government members were either members of , or proposed by , the PLA . |
| 27 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 28 | Roadside diners were not George 's environment . |
| 29 | The colliery villages were clearly places in which control of the workforce was strong , beyond the normal social relationships between employers and employee which were established at the pit itself . |
| 30 | Early oil engines were mostly semi-diesel engines and had to be started by heating the ‘ hot bulb ’ — part of the cylinder head — with a blowlamp . |