Example sentences of "[noun prp] were the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in . |
| 2 | Battle of Britain Air Display , RAF Finningley , September 19 Dominating the aircraft at Finningley were the F-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels team . |
| 3 | Harry and David were the Brigade 's first horses but , soon after his arrival , David fell going down the Hill to Haversham , and was returned to Euston . |
| 4 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 5 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 6 | In general , the reform programme originated in the thought of the upper middle class of socially concerned professional people , of whom Beveridge and Keynes were the patron saints . |
| 7 | Thus the naval bombardment , which had , in fact , opened the way to Constantinople were the attack pressed home , served only to alert the Turks and their German ally to their peril in this area . |
| 8 | Although this result would be required if the SCN were the clock , two problems still remain . |
| 9 | Messiaen and Boulez were the focus of attention , composers who for him were an intellectual dead-end . |
| 10 | Among those who helped create the public library system in England were the benefactor Andrew Carnegie , whose libraries can be found from Ayr to Brentford , W.H. Smith , whose eponymous book chain still is bookselling for the average English man and woman , and Mr Gladstone . |
| 11 | Rob and Heather were the centre of a rather noisy young crowd . |
| 12 | Security at England 's Washington hotel is being stepped up after Brazil were the target for thieves . |
| 13 | As Ross monopolised her company , and claimed her for every dance , Laura was dimly aware that not only were her friends amazed , and frankly envious , but that she and Ross were the focus of all eyes , and much gossip . |
| 14 | Patina and chasing work were added in workshops in the Paris region , where Rodins were the speciality . |
| 15 | It is considered to have aphrodisiac properties , and some believe it to have been the original ‘ forbidden fruit ’ and that the Seychelles were the site of the Garden of Eden . |
| 16 | By this time Clough and Hinxman were the District Geologists and the Scottish staff had been augmented by E. M. Anderson , E. B. Bailey , R. G. Carruthers , C. B. Crampton , G. W. Grabham and H. B. Maufe . |
| 17 | Compared to these regions the mountains and plains of central Spain were the despair of the traveller : ‘ the barest and most melancholy I ever beheld ’ . |
| 18 | The ‘ bizarre confusions ’ of the regions of Spain were the delight of nineteenth-century novelists and the despair of reformers in search of ‘ general legislation which can apply to all the provinces of the monarchy . ’ |
| 19 | Java and Sumatra were the core of the Dutch empire which still had colonies in the West Indies as well . |
| 20 | Among a number of executions reported during December were the hanging of nine people on Dec. 7 in the town of Zahedan , south-east Iran , after being condemned by an Islamic court for having " disturbed the public order " in disturbances there in November . |
| 21 | The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard . |
| 22 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 23 | Also discussed in Minsk were the issue of a joint interstate television company ( the ex-Soviet Ostankino company being sharply criticized for failing to draft a charter , as had been agreed at the May Tashkent summit — see p. 38922 ) , transport , health , the environment and division of ex-Soviet property . |
| 24 | In Herefordshire were the river wye burst it 's banks , levels are now stablising and are not expected to increase . |
| 25 | Herefordshire were the team to catch in the Eastern Division by winning their first two matches — just . |
| 26 | A few impressive verbatim quotations by Athenaeus and some references in Strabo were the starting point . |
| 27 | He and ITN 's Penny Marshall were the station 's Moscow correspondents . |
| 28 | Centres such as Hoebridge were the answer . |
| 29 | Robertson , Ferguson and Gordon were the home side 's absentees . |
| 30 | If Jesus were the Messiah , then he had already come and a new interpretation was necessary . |