Example sentences of "was [adv] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 2 | But erm another funny story that er always sticks in my mind is er when we sent memos to the Clerks ' Department and there was only the Clerks ' Department , they were , they were trying to erm improve their public image as |
| 3 | The big worry for Town is that Arsenal 's goal came from the prolific Ian Wright , his 23rd this season , although it was only The Gunners ' fourth goal in 15 games . |
| 4 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
| 5 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 6 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 7 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 8 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 9 | The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune . |
| 10 | It was once the Friends ' Meeting House , and a flight of stone steps led to it when I first knew it . |
| 11 | Alida was really the sisters ' friend . |
| 12 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 13 | From January 1992 to the voting hour on 3 November , however , health care was consistently the voters ' second greatest concern . |
| 14 | It was undoubtedly the polls ' worst performance in any election . |