Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 2 | Just near er M forty two there 's a lot of er roadworks and there were a |
| 3 | The owning Regions had their priorities to maintain to reasonable standards the stations on main lines and which were the calling points for InterCity trains . |
| 4 | When crime series started it was quite clear who were the goodies and who were the baddies . |
| 5 | We never made models or did projects and there were no school trips . |
| 6 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 7 | In a letter to the General Secretary the wife of a member had quoted Charles Dickens in describing the dispute , ‘ They were the best of times and they were the worst of times ’ . |
| 8 | According to the Soviet agency Tass , it was brought under control within two hours and there were no casualties and no radiation escaped . |
| 9 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 10 | Severe events involving short term threat , on the other hand , rarely involved loss and were situations where the threat was over within ten days and there were no serious long-term consequences . |
| 11 | That was a lot of money in those days and there were a lot of men eager to do it — around twenty or thirty out of Baldersdale were hired . |
| 12 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 13 | changes and who were the invited ? |
| 14 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 15 | The children sat on ordinary chairs at normal tables and there were no grab bars or straps despite the fact that one child had great difficulty in controlling his limbs . |
| 16 | We put the staff in costumes instead of uniforms and we were the first to really ‘ love ’ children while other restaurants tolerated them . ’ |
| 17 | The tumour was in its early stages and there were no signs it had spread or caused any lasting damage , said the hospital . |
| 18 | For me , we were the good guys and they were the bad guys . |
| 19 | And er of course he alerted the other two fellows and there were no fighting there was only about two little fire extinguishers on the tower . |
| 20 | The soil could be worked by light , primitive ploughs and there were no forests to clear or swamps to drain . |
| 21 | The demand for working class seaside visits in Lancashire predated the railways and they were a convenience for , rather than a cause of , its subsequent growth … |
| 22 | When you were er in the unions and you were a shop steward , did you find that you got a lot of people working in branch meetings ? |
| 23 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |