Example sentences of "this [was/were] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line .
2 One manifestation of this was the comrades ' courts .
3 This was the donkey-boys ' stand .
4 It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them .
5 This was the children 's seventh day away from Orkney .
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