Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Third Department had convinced itself that Sunday schools were hotbeds of sedition , it was hardly surprising that in June 1862 the government closed them down . |
| 2 | Most of the teachers in grammar schools were graduates of universities : many , but by no means all of them , had also taken a one-year course of teacher training after completing their undergraduate studies . |
| 3 | However , these readers were students of English , which means that they were used to reading texts for tutorials that they might not have chosen to read on their own . |
| 4 | The rags were bits of clothing of childless women who came to the shrine to pray for fertility . |
| 5 | The real reason may lie in the clients : eighteenth century clients were men of taste and education , unlike the corporations of today . |
| 6 | Early computers were boxes with ports for terminals . |
| 7 | High ecclesiastics were men of authority as well as of sanctity . |
| 8 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
| 9 | Wainfleet 's eyes were pinpoints of concentration . |
| 10 | And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked Where Tim , the ostler , listened ; his face was white and peaked , His eyes were hollows of madness , his hair like mouldy hay ; But he loved the landlord 's daughter , |
| 11 | His eyes were hollows of madness , his hair like mouldy hay . |
| 12 | His writings and speeches were miracles of ambiguity ; he was congenitally even-handed . |
| 13 | Such images were reworkings of arguments already used about Toxteth in 1981 and Brixton in 1981 , but they were used more widely than in 1980–1 . |
| 14 | Also present at these meetings in various London clubs and restaurants were representatives from employers ' organizations , who recognized that to influence the Policy Unit was to influence the Prime Minister : if a minister proved unavailable , unsympathetic or intractable , they could outmanoeuvre him by enlisting Policy Unit support . |
| 15 | Both goals were examples of calm finishing by the winger who is pleading with White Hart Lane fans not to label him ‘ Dazza ’ . |
| 16 | Health risks were matters of acceptance for the most part by employers and workers alike . |
| 17 | The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat . |
| 18 | He was the first to see the amusing side when golfers asked for a caddie — ‘ Your Worship ’ and mused that both his roles were ones of service . |
| 19 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 20 | The smallest tank found to be adequate to breed a large pair of cichlids was 36″ × 15″ × 15″ and one author had six of these tanks running with deep bed undergravel filtration with no serious problems for the five years . |
| 21 | , Sir Charles William Blyth ( 1889–1982 ) , meteorologist , was born 10 September 1889 in Edinburgh , the youngest of four sons ( there were no daughters ) of John Hodge Normand , pharmaceutical chemist , and his wife Mary Baxter , the daughter of a ship 's captain ; both parents were natives of Fife . |
| 22 | Both of Jaq 's parents were adepts of genetics . |
| 23 | Both Lugard 's parents were missionaries in India , but his father came from a family of soldiers and himself possessed military rank as a chaplain in the Madras establishment of the East India Company . |
| 24 | The defendants were bailees of barley belonging to X which had been pledged to the Y Bank by means of warehouse receipts . |
| 25 | Worst affected areas were parts of Bishop Auckland , Stanley , and other villages in Weardale . |
| 26 | It took some getting used to the idea that Gentiles were fellow-heirs in God 's kingdom , brothers and sisters in the same family , for there was a great deal of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 27 | At the same time beside the Alliance Works ' numerous sidings were two-and-a-half-miles of viaduct waiting to go to Argentina . |
| 28 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 29 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 30 | These articles were commentaries on world affairs and , given the events of the time , they often concerned the colonial activities of European powers , principally Britain . |