Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there were differences they were between London and America , not England and America and were no greater than between London and the provinces where the industrial revolution was changing the world . |
| 2 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 3 | Do you think Elvis understood that you were people who needed to make a living on a day-to-day , month-to-month , year-to-year basis ? |
| 4 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 5 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 6 | But even Josephus contradicts himself and declares almost as an afterthought , that there were Essenes who married . |
| 7 | What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved . |
| 8 | Her instinct , almost irresistible , was to throw it at him , but she was fast learning that there were impulses which a person in her position could not afford to follow . |
| 9 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 10 | Certainly in this study it was clear that there were farmers who did not have the necessary time to do the job fully . |
| 11 | There was some question about whether the Report should be published in its entirety , for Mr Baker and Mrs Rumbold were worried that there were sections which the Prime Minister would not like . |
| 12 | As the talk developed , it became apparent that there were things which ‘ we ’ could do to alter matters in Lesotho . |
| 13 | He realised that there were things he had done ; but now he did nothing . |
| 14 | However , for one in five of the people in residential homes for a year or more , our respondents said that there were relatives who they felt might have visited more often . |
| 15 | He happened to notice that there were crystals which appeared to be mirror images of each other . |
| 16 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
| 17 | Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini . |
| 18 | However Hahnemann came increasingly to recognize that there were patients whose diseases continually seemed to relapse , or change their form , and such patients could be extremely difficult to treat . |
| 19 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 20 | At the back of my mind lay the knowledge that there were men who enjoyed themselves sexually with other men . |
| 21 | There was little doubt that there were men who were as eligible , whose names would have aroused less comment . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 23 | Actual workers would only be recruited once there were clients who needed care , but the development officers began to make contact with potential sources of support worker recruitment , for example , churches and church groups , women 's groups ( Women 's Institute , Mother 's Union , Young Wives ) , tenants ' associations , community centres ; they gave talks to meetings of these groups when possible , partly in order to fulfil another of their roles : to increase general awareness , understanding and tolerance of dementia , but also to reach possible support workers . |
| 24 | Other departmental proposals were considered : They were all valid in their own right , but … too narrow , and we felt that they were ones which we would have to attempt to deal with out of capitation . |
| 25 | Nobody mentioned that they were puppets themselves . |
| 26 | It might be doubted whether Ragnvald 's sons , who were first put forward as Cnut 's opponents at Holy River long ago , would have been sufficiently well known in England for the Chronicle entry to be readily intelligible , but this is not certain , and an annalist naming leaders of large Swedish forces may have thought it obvious that they were Swedes themselves . |
| 27 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 28 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 29 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 30 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |