Example sentences of "houses [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why collections by the provisionals in public houses were having partial success in the 1970s without too much interference by the Garda , the Republic 's police force . |
| 2 | The houses were huts — branches and small tree-trunks caulked with turf . |
| 3 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 4 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 5 | Research suggests that many manual workers who have bought shares in the privatized firms and industries or purchased council houses were already Conservative voters . |
| 6 | The old houses were at their best in it , their shabbiness , the cracks in their fabric veiled , as an ageing face is veiled and smoothed by candlelight . |
| 7 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 8 | The new post-Occupation magazines and publishing houses were run from bars . |
| 9 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 10 | Soane 's houses were always amazingly practical for their time . |
| 11 | The new clergy houses were of a quite different , selfless and holy Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | The Victorian worship of money was on the wax , and houses were an outward expression of what you were worth and how fashionable was your taste . |
| 13 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |
| 14 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 15 | About half the houses were now finished , the turfs laid , the flower beds cut , looking like fresh graves — all in the front , of course . |
| 16 | It was cold like all empty houses were . |
| 17 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 18 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 19 | My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like . |
| 20 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 21 | A few new houses were under construction , using breeze-blocks rather than the traditional brick . |
| 22 | Many of the houses were eighteenth century or earlier with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs and half-timbered gables painted white or pale green . |
| 23 | When the houses were ready , prices of up to £51,000 were quoted . |
| 24 | When the houses were ready , prices of up to £51,000 were quoted . |
| 25 | Leper houses were common in the Middle Ages : ‘ Nearly every village and burg had one — rather like a Holiday Inn or a Sleep Cheap Motel . ’ |
| 26 | The houses were widely spread and the little road connecting them went nowhere , dwindling finally into the maquis . |
| 27 | Elaborate and costly sheep houses were to be found on most farms . |
| 28 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 29 | During the latter part of the eighteenth century several handsome houses were built overlooking the river there and the name became ‘ Strand on Green ’ , and not until the early part of the nineteenth century did the present name of ‘ Strand-on-the-Green ’ become formally adopted . |
| 30 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |