Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford always insisted that he and Frank Spencer were two completely different people , but it was sometimes difficult to escape the comparisons . |
| 2 | The other Met girls , Sheila , Marjorie , Babs , Dora and Jean were all very easy to get on with , and the Met Office was custom built for the job , with benches that were properly lit and stools the right height for us to work from . |
| 3 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 4 | Kirkella , Westella , Northella , Southella and Willerby were all originally separate villages and settlements connected by rural pathways and cartroads on the approaches to the Yorkshire wolds . |
| 5 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 6 | Their concern for the Hungarian minority in Romania at a time when relations between Budapest and Bucharest were excellent frequently landed them in trouble with the authorities . |
| 7 | IF THE life stories of Billie Holliday , Loretta Lynn and Pasty Cline were interesting enough to inspire major Hollywood movies , it 's surely only a matter of time before the Dinah Washington biopic arrives . |
| 8 | I tried to get drawing pins from the office , but Peter McCormick & Bill Nicholson were both away , and apparently no-one else can get access to the stationery cupboard — I bought pins from a local shop . |
| 9 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 10 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 11 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 12 | Faced by such diverse interpretations of the new adversary , the Reagan Presidency in 1985 , rather than return to Kissinger 's ideal of ‘ linkage ’ in a period of détente , decided to pursue a policy of ‘ constructive confrontation ’ with Moscow , accepting that certain agreements with Russia were possible even if she remained a rival on the world stage . |
| 13 | There is some validity in most of these criticisms , but they should not obscure the fact that the fundamental problems with the RPF were conceptual rather than tactical or organizational . |
| 14 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | If General Motors , Ford and Chrysler were foolish enough to conspire to fix prices , they would quickly lose market share to Toyota , Volkswagen and Hyundai , at home as well as abroad . |
| 16 | But by half time Blaydon were 27–6 ahead and after that they ran riot , with patched up Darlington doing their best to stem the flow . |
| 17 | As you may have gathered , Carl and Sam were two totally different persons . |
| 18 | The artist 's mother Mrs Skip Aspinall , and her daughter Lady Henrietta Bathurst were both there ; also her brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs Edward Nelson , and her cousin Mr David Nelson . |
| 19 | The KLF were clever enough to do it when they did … ’ |
| 20 | Razia , Panna and Vimla were all very different — in their backgrounds , their characters , and their looks . |
| 21 | Steve Bloomer of Derby or Billy Meredith at Manchester were famous locally rather than nationally . |
| 22 | Campaigners who 've fought long and hard to save the Lugg Meadows were jubilant today . |
| 23 | The rituals of Ingelheim were original too in their extended use of godparental bonds : Louis stood godfather to Harald , Judith was godmother to Harald 's wife , and Lothar was godfather to Harald 's son . |
| 24 | Although Princess Diana was top , The Queen Mother , Lady Thatcher , Barbara Cartland and Joanna Lumley were close behind . |
| 25 | If the Member States of the EEC were concerned chiefly with their security and with an effective system of collective military strength , they would work through the structures of Nato , whose durability and success are well proven . |
| 26 | That first day of the Sale had a special distinction in that the Andersons were both there in person to help at ‘ the sharp end ’ , as Scott called it . |
| 27 | If it looks forced , it will count for nothing. , Angus and John Stewart were restive now and young McCulloch was jeering openly . |
| 28 | Unisys Corp , ICL and DEC were all very happy to see Unix out of the hands of AT&T/NCR . |
| 29 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 30 | Like their peers elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , the Communist rulers of Romania were shrewd enough to know that not even village idiots believed the official media . |