Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] were [verb] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 2 | What criteria should any experiment we made try to meet to satisfy the claim that the process we were studying was a necessary , sufficient and possibly even specific aspect of the memory formation process ? |
| 3 | Its implications for the war they were fighting were profoundly unsettling : even in the best case — from their perspective , " francisation " — they would still be in the position of fighting against an independence movement in the name of self-determination . |
| 4 | It was true that some of the team who were sent were among those who were most experienced in the use of the gifts of the Spirit , but others soon emerged to take their place in the mother church . |
| 5 | It crept down the columns that the place we were to attack was a village called Neuve Chapelle . |
| 6 | Rain said : ‘ You 're being very discreet , Tim , but the person you were avoiding was that pedlar , was n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 8 | The music we were playing was reggae ( Horace Andy , Dillinger ) crossing over into Soul ( Patrice Rushent , Maze , Crystal ) and early electro ( Fab 5 Freddy , Grandmaster Flash , Spoonie Gee ) . |
| 9 | The road they were following was almost empty . |
| 10 | The training we were to receive was later to help us teenagers when most of us enlisted into the services . |
| 11 | Sitting with his back to the way they were going was unsettling . |
| 12 | ‘ The holiday we were featuring was a Sovereign Cities ‘ Away-Day ’ to Amsterdam and , as we had a lot to see and do in one day , we had to set out early . |
| 13 | The task they were set was to decide which were the oldest buildings in the street . |