Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1914 , there were over 400 Board of Trade exchanges in the United Kingdom dealing with juveniles ; in 44 districts the Board had also authorized JACs , and in 58 districts the LEAs were running their own schemes . |
| 2 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 3 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice-president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 4 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 5 | Yeah , cos er , I think Neil was telling you that , they look as if they 're gon na be buying plenty of gas off us if we , when we start taking the air products . |
| 6 | Convinced that in keeping him with her , she was merely indulging her maternal regard for him , Richard was playing his last card . |
| 7 | Lucy was eyeing her changing expression speculatively . |
| 8 | In short , claims that the United States was abusing its financial position were a way of claiming that US competition was ‘ unfair ’ rather than just effective . |
| 9 | He said the United States was changing its historic policy in the region . |
| 10 | By late 1943 , when Liselotte was approaching her seventh birthday , she had taken to banging her head , a symptom which worried her foster mother more than her doctor , who ‘ could not be persuaded to view the matter very seriously ’ . |
| 11 | On another part of the movie lot , Charlie Schlatter was learning his final lines of the drama . |
| 12 | Toby was doing his own brand of gaping by this time . |
| 13 | Over the road , Jessica Haddow was making herself invisible . |
| 14 | Never having shot anyone , Molly was doing her best to look apologetic . |
| 15 | While Lebanon 's Christians were demanding more territory , Protestants in the north of Ireland were safeguarding their future statelet within the United Kingdom by accepting less than they might have claimed . |
| 16 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 17 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 18 | Two incidents from William Joyce 's time at the College of St Ignatius Loyola were to foreshadow his public personality in adult life . |
| 19 | According to rumours circulating in Würzburg , Party representatives in Nuremberg were finding it difficult to carry out their functions following the recent raids on the city . |
| 20 | Owned and ridden by Graeme Martin , Limeridge was winning his second point-to-point of the season , and his fifth in all . |
| 21 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 22 | Archbishop Theodore was to appoint his own choice , Eorcenwald , abbot of Chertsey , as bishop of London in succession to Wine , probably in 675 ( HE IV , 6 ) , but there can be no doubt about the reality of Mercian power in Wulfhere 's last years not only north but also south of the Thames , facilitated in all probability by the death of Ecgberht , king of Kent , in 673 ( see above , p. 44 ) and the disintegration of the overkingship of Cenwealh among the western Saxons across the years 672–5 ( see above , pp. 52 ff . ) . |
| 23 | The CNAA was establishing its own organizational shapes . |
| 24 | Suddenly , Ronni was finding it difficult to breathe . |
| 25 | Gould was cutting it fine . |
| 26 | Jeffrey was doing his customary book signing . |
| 27 | Settlement of the issues of border troops and conventional forces would take place following discussions over the subsequent two months , although it was recognized in the protocols that Ukraine was creating its own armed forces as of Jan. 3 , 1992 . |
| 28 | Miss Havisham was making me rich ! |
| 29 | When in the eighteenth century Mme Merian was preparing her sumptuous insect books , she found that there were no names in European languages for common but unshowy kinds of butterflies . |
| 30 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |