Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] the [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the auction last year the buyers were the dealers Konrad Bernheimer , ( who has already been involved in the return of other important furniture to the Prussian palaces ) , and Achim Neuse . |
| 2 | Effective examples of such efforts were the Mechanics Institute movement and Canon Barnett 's Settlement House work . |
| 3 | Somewhere in those packs were the clothes Riven had entered Minginish with , though only Bicker knew that he had brought them along . |
| 4 | Among his many pupils were the authors George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley , the scientists Professor Raymond Dart , Professor George E. Coghill and Professor Frank Pierce Jones , as well as many well-known actors — too numerous to list in full . |
| 5 | He acted a little , played an American Mr Vanhattan in Shaw 's The Apple Cart — but his true worlds were the sports field and the streets . |
| 6 | Stealing the highlights were the Individuals semis and final . |