Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't solve them but thinking about them was good exercise . |
| 2 | The offices are I think the offices are I think , for the offices between them were ten pound fifty last time . |
| 3 | But the single most important song for me was Public Image by Public Image Ltd . |
| 4 | Most of them were above Ace and Defries , fluttering round the diagonal girder along which Daak was trying to climb . |
| 5 | A third of the authors were women , while in terms of their childhood backgrounds , 25 of them were upper class , 21 upper-middle class , 15 lower-middle class , and 84 working class . |
| 6 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
| 7 | Most of them were growing food or timber in 1880 , although not all of them were as productive as they were later to become . |
| 8 | Many of them were more animal than human . |
| 9 | Some of the girls were bitchy , some of them were National Front , some of them were skinheads , but you knew who to mix with and who not to mix with . |
| 10 | You know , six foot high , one of them was six foot wide . |
| 11 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
| 12 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
| 13 | Below him was another space which had once been a courtyard . |
| 14 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
| 15 | None of it was extravagant expenditure — we did n't buy new desks or other unnecessary items . |
| 16 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 17 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 18 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 19 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not saying any of it was great writing , but you ca n't beat a first-hand report . |
| 21 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 22 | most of it was fresh produce . |
| 23 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 24 | Most of it was just bumph , bills and Christmas cards , except for a bulky , strange-looking package which had been delivered by hand . |
| 25 | By 1800 most of it was white bread , bought from a baker , possible because coal drove the cost of fuel down . |
| 26 | Yes , I could now see most of it was olive green , with the odd camo suit . |
| 27 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 28 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 29 | All I could get out of 'im was this gymnasium Billy was interested in . |
| 30 | Two army lorries with hanging tailgates were parked nearby , and behind them was another Rover . |