Example sentences of "[vb past] were the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 2 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 3 | Turning to the parliamentary review programmes , new programmes that started when televising began were the daily round-up programmes on the business of the previous day , BBC2 's Westminster and ITN 's Westminster Programme ; there were also two weekly programmes on Sundays , BBC2 's Westminster Week and Channel 4 's A Week in Politics . |
| 4 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 5 | Moreover , since the class groups which most of these youth represented were the working class — those most marginalised by dominant middle class culture — these sub-cultural activities could be interpreted as a form of rebellion , a way of fighting back . |
| 6 | Among the things they criticized were the arrogant behaviour of Party leaders , their lenient treatment when misdemeanours came to light , the fact that ‘ the awaited purge in the Party had not taken place ’ , the wringing of money out of the people in constant collections , and the ‘ large , elegant cars ’ in which Party functionaries travelled to and from work . |