Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is a relatively new phenomenon and the type of warehouse which historically we all knew which was men in brown coats driving forklift trucks is not what it 's about , it 's about er pretty sophisticated labour erm dealing with erm computer systems and electronic retrieval systems and often working in shifts on twenty four hour basis . |
| 2 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 3 | Not er the th The employer deputized his authority and there was deputies in the pit , but never in factories . |
| 4 | There was depots in Tower Cross , Portobello , Leith , and many other places like that . |
| 5 | And there was helicopters in that were n't there ? |
| 6 | I mean there was houses in the street and there was like these courtyards at the back of them . |
| 7 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 8 | Now I used to get him along there and then he was sort of in tears but there was kids in the hall , the little hall and then when you sort come in the door , not the main door , the one , the |
| 9 | There was kids in my door |
| 10 | Well if there was flowers in |
| 11 | In Low Newton , in the new part , there was wash-basins in the cell , but it 's still embarrassing if you 're sharing a cell and you want a strip wash . |
| 12 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 13 | Moreover , it was improvements in peasant husbandry that were primarily responsible for the growth . |
| 14 | It was developments in sampling theory from statistics which weakened the force of both these assumptions , and quite early on in Britain . |
| 15 | Course , it was horses in them days , not motorcars . |
| 16 | As railway employment declined ( there were two million railway workers in 1920 and only one million in 1930 ) it was Blacks in unskilled work who were the most vulnerable . |
| 17 | For many of the authors discussed above , it was changes in the rules ( however defined ) governing behaviour . |
| 18 | It was changes in the economy , however , that would be decisive in any development of this kind , and the speech was largely preoccupied with familiar matters such as growth , efficiency and labour productivity . |
| 19 | Friedman and Schwartz , however , claimed that it was changes in the nominal money supply which caused changes in money national income ( recall the mechanism described in Chapter 21 ) and , once again , they appealed to empirical evidence to support their view . |
| 20 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 21 | Not only were there numerous deep recessions , but by the end of the century it was discovered foreign iron ore was of a higher quality , and although the MSG works did smelt imports from Spain , Russia and Chile , it was furnaces in ports that could do the cheapest . |
| 22 | What really spurred it was abuses in appraisals of works of art . |
| 23 | It was Nails in the driving-seat . |
| 24 | It was heads in air , studied indifference . |
| 25 | It was cats in her case . |
| 26 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 27 | It was consumers in the UK who forced manufacturers to stop using CFCs as propellants in their aerosols . |
| 28 | It was the it was boats in me mother 's day , of course then the drafters was . |
| 29 | If they were n't , and I 'm told that it was Babes In Toyland who were full of doughnuts , then what 's their excuse for sounding like this ? |
| 30 | Who if anyone was tagos in Thessaly in these years ? |