Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [art] ones " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yes , the footsteps were the ones she heard every night in her own part of the Castle . |
| 3 | For instance , if the hypothesis were that nation states pursue their own self-interest , then one could ask not only what is to count as a nation state and as pursuit of self-interest but also why these particular concepts were the ones chosen . |
| 4 | In the second century BC , when Judah was occupied by the Greeks , the Pharisees were the ones who refused all Greek influences . |
| 5 | As in any full-blown controversy , these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight . |
| 6 | The civil servants ensured that our drafts were the ones that eventually went into the Statutes , so we were able to return to our second Report . |
| 7 | Again it was noticeable that the departments which incorporated both pupil and teacher assessments were the ones that seemed to have a much stronger philosophical basis for the work they asked children to do . |
| 8 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 9 | Due to the cleaning out of a lot of prominent party figures the ‘ second rank ’ party members were the ones who benefitted from the purges . |
| 10 | Some of his acquaintances favoured her premises by night ; like Jean-Paul , they felt the dark hours were the ones in which to drink and go hunting . |
| 11 | The largest houses were the ones who most readily hired girls . |
| 12 | This list is not exhaustive , and various writers attempted to show that their selected list of traits were the ones that provided the key to leadership . |
| 13 | But spiritually , I would guess , the middle-class punks who were obediently getting their degrees were the ones upon whom the movement left its deepest mark . |
| 14 | This follows almost directly from the fact that the actors were the ones who intended the action in the first place . |
| 15 | The stairs and bannisters were the ones she knew , the door to the sitting room and the one into the kitchen were in their familiar places but there the resemblance ended . |