Example sentences of "[det] were [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the victims were peasants , some were students and teachers , and 31 were children and young people . |
| 2 | and er then when they left school some were missionaries and some were nurses . |
| 3 | The first news said over two hundred , but as more ships brought survivors the number dropped to one hundred and twenty , ’ but eighty-five of these were women and children . |
| 4 | These were investments and the form in which less educated Egyptians stored their savings . |
| 5 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |
| 6 | There is no mention anywhere of the fact that these were brothers and sisters , nor that they were born in Frome ; that has been for us to establish later . |
| 7 | These were aquatints and are some of the most beautiful and inventive prints that Green produced . |
| 8 | These were cycads and bennettites . |
| 9 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 10 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 11 | These were truths and remain so in spite of the fallacious ideological baggage with which they are mixed up . |
| 12 | One hundred and fifty had been killed on the railway — but many of those were suicides and not passengers . |
| 13 | They were selected on the basis of their general knowledge of the drug scene ( several were dealers and thus the centre of specific networks ) and their ability to communicate that knowledge . |
| 14 | One or two of Murrells ' water conservation projects were spectacularly successful , but most were failures and in the end proved an embarrassment to the administration-particularly as the method of financing he selected was an unlucky one . |
| 15 | Most were labourers and were tenants of either Howard or the lord of the manor , Samuel Whitbread . |
| 16 | 923 the court was concerned with three guarantees entered into by a husband and wife to cover the indebtedness of a family company of which both were shareholders and directors and with three charges on the wife 's house executed by her in favour of the bank securing the same indebtedness . |
| 17 | Both were itinerants and masterless men , sometimes both subjected to the same vagrancy laws ( alternatively the player might be a royal servant — an interesting opposition in itself ) . |