Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 2 | Oh the plants were in such a mess on the oh it was a filthy mess |
| 3 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
| 4 | Yet they were surely correct in their fundamental premise , that what distinguished the twelfth century from its predecessors was above all the proliferation of new political communities , juridically defined by their consuetudines or coutumes . |
| 5 | Four-fifths of the flags were within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla , the Old Gate , near which was both the Blue Mosque of the Dervishes and the old church of the Copts , the Mar Girgis . |
| 6 | First impressions are inclined to stick so I am glad that my introduction to the Highlands and Islands was on such a day . |
| 7 | And it 's changed they out-winter the beasts there now , it used to be that the beasts was in all the time in Winter . |