Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 2 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 3 | The other Frenchmen were retreating up the slope , unwilling to give battle to the greater number of black-uniformed Hussars . |
| 4 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 5 | All eyes were directed down the garden towards the pool . |
| 6 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 7 | Millie 's lids were blinking , and her lips were licking up the salt tears as she brought out , ‘ I … |
| 8 | She also cites evidence from school inspectors which says that in almost 40 per cent of primary schools parents were topping up the capitation allowance for books and equipment by more than 30 per cent . |
| 9 | He recorded verdicts of accidental death and urged anyone who dumps a fridge or freezer to make sure the door hinges were smashed so the tragedy could n't be repeated . |
| 10 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 11 | The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries . |
| 12 | Four 15 minute collections were taken over the hour . |
| 13 | The Dr'gasians were damping down the fire amid clouds of smoke and steam . |
| 14 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 15 | The youngest of Taureg 's officers was holding out the flag for all to see , proudly proclaiming the success of their patrol and the reason for this , their special homecoming . |
| 16 | On the beach , the pirates were breaking up the captain 's little boat with axes . |
| 17 | The three rabbits were returning down the bank of the stream and had not yet seen Hazel and the others . |
| 18 | A trio of skinheads were coming up the pavement , and some kids on bikes came by , saw them and started to circle back . |
| 19 | Tears were pouring down the girl 's face and every maternal instinct in Kate 's body told her to comfort her child . |
| 20 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 21 | We knew the RAF , and Allied friends were seeking out the launching sites of these monstrosities , and wiping them out where they could . |
| 22 | Survey ships were carried on the Navy List , but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only . |
| 23 | DURING the housing boom they used to say that the only contact an architect had with the design of many high-volume , speculative developments was to lay out the site so that the maximum number of little boxes could be squeezed in . |
| 24 | Local authorities were to decide how the legislation might be applied in communities where at least 15 per cent of the inhabitants spoke one of the " minority languages " . |
| 25 | Earlier in the chapter , reasons were given why the mythology surrounding this event should be questioned . |
| 26 | Out on the far side of the town signs were jammed down the highway : Liquors , Drugs , Breakfast all day , Speed radar control , Watch for deer roaming at night , Exit , fasten seat belt , Mexiteria ; all you eat $.10 , Hot Pizza to go , Gas , Regular 25.9 , Tomatoes 35c . |
| 27 | As they drove past a massive fallen jak tree a man and his two sons were digging out the trunk . |
| 28 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 29 | For almost twenty years after that various proposals were run up the flagpole , mostly to unsaluting generals . |
| 30 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |