Example sentences of "[noun pl] were the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the transformation of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes into real parks , as opposed to an ‘ arid waste covered by trees ’ ( the words were the Emperor 's ) , an attempt was made to endow all the areas of the city with small squares , which were in essence miniature parks ranging in size from one-quarter of an acre to six acres . |
| 2 | The whispered words were the first brave Leslie , 29 , spoke after regaining consciousness and being taken off a life support machine . |
| 3 | For the disciples round the cross the words were the pronouncement of doom : the end of hope and meaning , the extinction of faith , defeat . |
| 4 | ‘ Death or disappearance ’ — the words were the same as in Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 5 | The key words were the last . |
| 6 | His words were the signal for Lord Hartington to send champagne in to the press room at Cheltenham , acknowledging the role of journalists in drawing attention to the problem . |
| 7 | As an example , it was found for one Latin American country that the mother 's individual characteristics were the most important determinants of neonatal mortality , but such housing conditions as type of water supply and sewage disposal were almost equally important . |
| 8 | Their chief characteristics were the deeply incised lines and drilled holes giving a strongly defined black and white effect ( 177 , 178 , 179 , 184 , 185 and PLATES 29 , 30 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ When you ask these people ‘ What were the most important factors in your success ? ’ , they all say the main aspects were the importance of teamworking between all contributors , the clear identification of what had to be achieved for success . |
| 10 | Two of our greatest fans were the 1968 West Indian Cricket team and the Duke Ellington Orchestra they gave us a standsing ovation . |
| 11 | Non-enrollers were the only applicants to want a different mode of attendance in the course they had applied to . |
| 12 | If we view this group as " conservative " , the same is not true of the distinct world of the Lombard Street banks whose depositors were the true mercantile and financier groups of the City . |
| 13 | The screams were the worst part . |
| 14 | He and his friends had always agreed that English women 's legs were the disaster of Europe but , he was pleased to see , this girl 's were different . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , its legs were the upturned legs of a billiard table . |
| 16 | The Sheds were the Shrewsbury ones . |
| 17 | The dominant styles were the cottage and the colonial bungalow for country stations and a variety of appealing Italianate and Renaissance forms for the stations of cities and towns . |
| 18 | Four types of areas were created for general practice : designated areas where the size of G.P. lists were the highest through to intermediate and restricted areas where G.P. list sizes were the lowest . |
| 19 | The churches played a significant part in dealing with this condition and the parish schools were the most important providers of elementary education . |
| 20 | The two computers on offer from the DoI for secondary schools were the BBC Acorn microcomputer and Research Machines 380Z . |
| 21 | Although her schools were the centre of her life , her view of public affairs was in no way restricted . |
| 22 | Anglesey on the other hand could , since comprehensive schools were the easiest solution to rural isolation and the lack of any funding for new buildings . |
| 23 | What Gordon found was that the passages rewritten by the class containing the most poor readers were the ones which were subsequently found to be the most comprehensible . |
| 24 | Also much more popular with male readers were the British birds of prey , particularly the osprey and the peregrine falcon . |
| 25 | Reasons not attributable to readers were the querying of pressmarks which proved , on examination , to be correct ( 15% ) , and the sending of the wrong book against a correctly-completed call-slip ( 8% ) . |
| 26 | Rather , Serbian royalist Chetniks were the real butchers . |
| 27 | Originally , the Calends were the days of new moon and the Ides the days of full moon . |
| 28 | Some non-Goyigama villages near the coast , such as Magalkande , Indisgastuduva , and Pohoddaramulla , had reputations as centres of cattle stealing , but in the interior relatively wealthy persons and their poorer kin and clients were the main beneficiaries . |
| 29 | The columnist added that war-time journalists were the ‘ cat 's paws ’ of Japan 's militarists , ‘ reporting nothing but lies . ’ |
| 30 | Their most damaging impacts were the introduction of diseases and alcohol addiction , which incapacitated and occasionally destroyed whole communities ( ibid . ) . |