Example sentences of "and [noun sg] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 2 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 3 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 4 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 5 | The ‘ Hitler myth ’ and terror were in this sense two indispensable sides of the same coin , ensuring political control and mobilization behind the regime . |
| 6 | And , IBM was happy to have the world believe , IBMers were an inherently superior breed , that its recruitment and training were of such excellence that man for man , any IBMer would be effortlessly superior to his counterpart in any competing company . |
| 7 | I remember when my mum and dad were on this committee , actually the this records department is part of the Libraries ' erm , committee 's responsibility , records sub used to be there , and used to regularly meet and that used to deal with it . |