Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery . |
| 2 | Revealingly , government representatives at a recent meeting of gypsy leaders from 14 Central and East European countries at a palace on Lake Snagov were mainly immigration officials . |
| 3 | Rhee was encouraged by certain people in Washington and Hodge named Oliver , Staggers and Jerome Williams ; Staggers and Williams were respectively president and vice-president of the American World Trade Export-Import Company Inc . |
| 4 | Jinnah and Nehru were fully adult before 1914 : Jinnah was already an experienced politician . |
| 5 | The truth , I suspect , is that sport and Mr Punch were not bosom chums . |
| 6 | Pallister were always jumpin on Lee 's back if you remember , at least Lesley were better lookin' . |
| 7 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 8 | Richard Leech and Bryan Forbes were also part of the club . |
| 9 | France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no ! |
| 10 | Beneath , the flesh and organs of France were still sound , healthy enough to resist worse privations , and to withstand more savage slashes of the surgeon 's knife . |
| 11 | His former Karabakh Committee colleagues Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Vazguen Manukyan were now President and Prime Minister respectively of Armenia [ see p. 37664 ] . |
| 12 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 13 | Kalchu and Sigarup were only half-attending . |
| 14 | In fact he and his wife Rosemary were extremely kind to me when they lived in South Yorkshire and later when I stayed with then , in North Yorkshire whilst working in that area . |