Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 2 | There were hundreds of the Hunters , darting and soaring through the air . |
| 3 | ( F ) Two vice presidents of the Republic shall be nominated , the first put forward by the S.D.M. and the second by the S.S.D.F. and S.P.F. ’ — The S.D.M. , S.S.D.F. and S.P.F. were three of the groupings — ‘ ( G ) The prime minister shall be a native of the north west of the country . |
| 4 | I fought like crazy but there were fifteen of the bastards . |
| 5 | There were five of the creatures . |
| 6 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 7 | If you were one of the killers … ’ |
| 8 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 9 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 10 | wonderful wonderful last Easter weekend back from Glasgow we were warned there was gon na be delays and we were fortunate we were one of the groups who came back fairly early . |
| 11 | The Anarchists were one of the groups they moved against . |
| 12 | Former Cavern DJ Bob Wooler recalls : ‘ The Dennisons were one of the groups who deserved to make it really big . |
| 13 | They were one of the reasons we moved to St. Albans . |
| 14 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 15 | When Ivy and Margaret had gone to get their gas masks in 1939 ‘ the girl ’ had asked Margaret if she were one of the heroines of An Adventure . |
| 16 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 17 | Here we find the ring of truth because if you were one of the disciples and Jesus had appeared to you , what would you have told your friends ? |
| 18 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 19 | Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973 . |
| 20 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 21 | As you will know , because we were one of the finalists last year , we ca n't get into the finals of Britain in Bloom this year , nor can we win an award as a ‘ first time entry ’ in the Best Kept Village competition . |
| 22 | Mr Brooke said the summer 's inter-party discussions were not peace talks as such , but they were one of the pressures that could be mounted on the terrorists . |
| 23 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
| 24 | Fine … if we were one of the sports who take ‘ Gate Money ’ and have a following of spectators who supply an income but as you are aware this is not ‘ US ’ . |
| 25 | The high costs were one of the justifications for the creation of a Government Working Party on Woonerven in 1984 , with a brief to assess the operation of Woonerven some seven years after the first legislation . |
| 26 | London attendance figures were 180,000 for the paintings and 120,000 for the separate ( free-entry ) display of prints drawn from the British Museum 's holdings . |
| 27 | Here then were two of the disabilities , helot problems and money problems , produced by the Spartan system . |
| 28 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 29 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 30 | City of London Polytechnic and Oxford Polytechnic were two of the institutions which sought to combine an interdisciplinary approach with a modular structure . |