Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [was/were] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , Hedley Byrne was a firm of advertising agents and Heller & Partners were merchant bankers . |
| 2 | Shildon said mail order lingerie was an area the business section had too long ignored , Rain insisted that knickers were gossip column fodder and Harbury remarked that it could probably be shown there had been offences under the Post Office Act . |
| 3 | One of the chief reasons for believing that heterostracans were fossil relatives of hagfishes ( Fig. 2 A , b ) centred on the fact that in the modern hagfish , Myxine , and heterostracans there is a single external branchial opening emptying from several internal gill pouches . |
| 4 | Jervis-Smith 's other interests and recreations were world travel , anthropology , and music ; he was an accomplished organist and pianist . |
| 5 | Her sweater and jeans were designer brands — with the labels removed . |
| 6 | Her sweater and jeans were designer brands — with the labels removed . |
| 7 | In Hancock [ 1990 ] 2 QB 242 it had not been decided whether coins were treasure trove or not . |