Example sentences of "[conj] [det] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nos. 11E , l8E and 20E were available for Cohen 's men to inspect first at Thornton Heath depôt and the others in store at Brixton Hill depôt where all were to be broken up . |
| 2 | the research subject areas where all were in employment were physics , Computing/physics , computing with non-IT subjects , and in optical fibres ; |
| 3 | Rumour had it that my father and mother met in a Methodist Chapel where both were in the choir . |
| 4 | The work on subliminal learning does n't work Okay , Brown suggests that you bring a c wardrobe of cuddly toys and mementoes and things like that that were in the room when you were learning , context dependent learning . |
| 5 | The discussion that is recorded about Lothar 's age suggests that some were at first not too keen to elect a pope in his thirties who , on recent record , might last for half a century . |
| 6 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 8 | The number of graves found in Upper Halling suggests that these were of settlers . |
| 9 | In ensuring that these were of comparable standard with that of the universities , the CNAA became inevitably — though its Charter did not make this explicit — ; concerned with those institutional features , beyond the details of the course itself , which affected judgment of the quality of the student experience . |
| 10 | Neither writers nor architects were wholly unaware that these were to be houses for human beings to live in . |
| 11 | Because of the cleverness of the script , they assumed that these were in fact proper news broadcasts . |
| 12 | Although the role of Western doctors in the introduction of Western medicine to China has been known about in a general sense for a long time , no studies exist which assess the contributions of British doctors in the last two centuries , yet evidence suggests that these were by no means insubstantial . |
| 13 | Although these were of great use to the profession the benefit was reduced by the fact that |
| 14 | Clark held that many were of Anglo-Saxon origin . |
| 15 | They consulted one another , hardly hoping for advice but grateful to vent their anger , grateful that all were of one mind . |
| 16 | Knowing that all were of uniform original size permits calculation of that size from the density distribution observed . |
| 17 | Britain and the United States were similar , though , in that both were to be brought out of the Depression of the 1930s not by government economic policies but by rearmament and the Second World War . |
| 18 | The Company had to contribute £3,000 ( and no more ) towards the cost of rebuilding and widening Goat House Bridge in South Norwood and the bridge over the road near Selby Road ; although both were on Tramway No. 20 , within the Borough of Croydon and claimed by the Corporation . |
| 19 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 20 | Stations at Darlington , Newton Aycliffe , Fishburn and Chester-le Street were also operating with one vehicle and each were on call some in each other 's areas . |
| 21 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 22 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 23 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 24 | If that were to be the outcome , it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years , but a hundred years . |
| 25 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 26 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 27 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 28 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 29 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 30 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |