Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the practice of creating these uses and trusts was popular and was growing , and the absence of all legal protection for them was a great hardship . |
| 2 | For some firms the most urgent necessity was simply to reduce immediate labour costs , and decentralization for them was a straight-forward way of finding cheaper labour . |
| 3 | The situation for them was a total one : and it was from this totality — the ritual killing of the frog , the dismembering and the unusual behaviour of the bone in the running stream — that they gained their conviction . |
| 4 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 5 | Between them was a tommy gun , discharging itself into the air . |
| 6 | In between them was the drooping branch of an apple tree . |
| 7 | A full-time multiprofessional Management Board would be created to implement its policies and the link between them was the Chief Executive who sat on both . |
| 8 | The only disappointing aspect for me was the unbearable tension caused by the starter who ‘ held ’ the men for an unbelievably long time , causing false starts . |
| 9 | After them was a black dog . |
| 10 | Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass . |
| 11 | And striding across the bailey towards them was a tall , dark man of about fitzAlan 's age , dressed in businesslike chainmail and armed with both sword and bow . |
| 12 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 13 | Below them was a larger group , sometimes called geburs ( origin of the modern ‘ boor ’ ) or freeman cottagers owing more services to their thegns than they had freedoms . |
| 14 | Opposite them was a small elfin fellow who wore a shiny blue waistcoat over his gallibaya . |
| 15 | Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace . |
| 16 | Ahead of me was an elliptical circle of maybe twenty people , the combined ages of whom must have seventy score and ten . |
| 17 | Right in front of me was the Absolute , the ens perfectissimum , a metaphysical colossus that had strayed into reality . |
| 18 | Some of them were a sorry sight ! |
| 19 | In a recent colleges survey ( admittedly with a return response of less than 40% ) 80% of the advanced instruction programmes which existed were timetabled and 60% of them were a formal part of the students ' courses . |
| 20 | She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play . |
| 21 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 22 | All of them were the worse ( or better ) for much use . |
| 23 | The majority of them were the surviving members of Yorick 's fan club . |
| 24 | None of them were the graphical , scientific and engineering markets beloved amongst Unix workstation vendors , and the Oki machine was perhaps not strong enough on I/O to handle document imaging , for instance . |
| 25 | One of the most prominent of them was a tall youth with the extravagant gestures and loud voice of an actor who knows he 's going down well . |
| 26 | One of them was a real wally , so the others did n't let him in on their plan . |
| 27 | It was big enough for two but not really for three , especially when one of them was a great big lout . |
| 28 | One of them was a great diarist . |
| 29 | One of them was a thoughtful , gangly young man called Charles de Gaulle , who , so impressed was he by Pétain 's teachings , applied on leaving St. Cyr to join the regiment then under his command , the 33rd . |
| 30 | All they could see in front of them was a vast mass of barren open ground . |