Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 2 | Er Brothers of were manufacturers of sheep dips and various disinfectants . |
| 3 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 4 | To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham . |
| 5 | But the man the players were all looking over their shoulders at was British Open champion Nick Faldo . |
| 6 | The bungalow they 'd come to end their lives in was rich already with this new and simple truth , with a logic any child could understand . |
| 7 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 8 | One of the issues that delegates expressed reservations about was the potential cost of the scheme — ‘ putting standards on water will require investment by a wide variety of people ’ , said Chave . |
| 9 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 10 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 11 | He was a r a r a rare one for getting little sharp digs in was n't he ? |
| 12 | So when you first started hiring out boats was it where did you get your boats from was it |
| 13 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 14 | It brings the total amount of heroin seized by customs officers in Kent this week to over a hundred kilos , two million pounds worth was seized from a car at Sheerness ; a fifty three year old Turk , Nemet Hanifi Kaboulu has been charged with importing heroin , he 'll appear before magistrates in the morning . |
| 15 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 16 | She agreed however , that if agency care was appropriate then sixty thousand pounds plus was the cost of that care . |
| 17 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 18 | We have found that are very much more sensitive , for example in detecting instability , erm we found differences pressures of were much higher in ambulatory studies . |
| 19 | 75 What neither the men nor the resisting women ever came to terms with was the completely new skill represented by monotyping . |
| 20 | It had to be , he had to do something or they would never have er got In other ways in was a lenient school because as the years went by it was , a register was called , a teacher er opened a book and we called numbers . |
| 21 | Erm th that 's the main er so overall you had a net gain in fact to erm U S profits er Camco erm I think less than that erm Camco 's profits to were spread fairly broadly geographically er as you do know it does operate as you do rightly point out erm pretty much everywhere else and it 's erm featured both in South America and Asia 's decline and Africa , but not in Europe . |
| 22 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 23 | I asked Terry to come along because one of the things I tho I tho I hope we might get round to spending a few minutes on was about Alan 's raised it before about records coming in er , and what the state of the game is in records coming into us and how we 're transferring that information , or not transferring that information onto dep onto department 's national curriculum er material |
| 24 | And the eight they voted Top of the Pops for were all by veteran songwriter Elizabeth Quinn . |
| 25 | Radji of was disinclined to protest as the Shah wished . |
| 26 | While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’ |
| 27 | The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs . |
| 28 | He looked stupid , a cobweb with bits in was caught in his hair , his glasses were crooked . |
| 29 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 30 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |