Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland were blessed with greater pace behind the scrum than , for example , the Canadians , but there was a lack of direct , straight running among the backs , the sort of qualities embodied by Kenny Logan , Kenny Milligan and Ian Jardine ( the last two-named winning defensive kudos , too , during the autumn events ) who are not among the present selection , but could figure next month . |
| 2 | SCOTLAND was hit by further job losses in Glasgow and Arbroath yesterday , writes Denny Macgee |
| 3 | Another evidently believed that The Merchant of Venice was set in greater Los Angeles . |
| 4 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 5 | Even Tobias and Lydia were housed in better quarters , while he was still ‘ in the lads ’ room' , where he had slept since leaving the cradle . |
| 6 | Whereas James Paul was deeply wounded by the failure of the N.D.D.S. , Healey was made of sterner stuff . |
| 7 | At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller , more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours . |
| 8 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 9 | The IBA was made of sterner stuff when the Foreign Secretary called for the banning of Death on the Rock . |
| 10 | Sophie was asking for better proof . |