Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] of [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , there were of course two deaths , Piggy and Simon , the bodies of whom were carried out to sea by the current . |
| 2 | There were of course political difficulties ; delays in getting money from Congress and in persuading the three principal states involved , Maryland , Virginia , and Pennsylvania , to cooperate with each other . |
| 3 | There were of course other institutions of central government , which can not be given more than a bare mention here . |
| 4 | There were of course major guidelines within which even the most idiosyncratic monarch would operate : security in the west , a steady probing towards outlets in the Baltic and the Black Sea , incremental expansion and pacification in the south-east . |
| 5 | There were of course bitter disputes among the Bolsheviks themselves over the direction of Soviet policy after the immediate threat to their power receded , with furious denunciation from those who fell foul of the regime — most notably from Trotsky . |
| 6 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |