Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those kind of things were were seemed to be ideas that were were floating around round about that time . |
| 2 | By the middle of the seventeenth century references in inventories to parlours as well as hall and chambers were commonplace , and by 1700 a wide variety of rooms were being listed . |
| 3 | By lunchtime yesterday all the streets were clear of water and the majority of people were being allowed to return to their homes . |
| 4 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 5 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 6 | At Ludwigsburg Leopold suspected that his attempts to gain an audience with Karl Eugen , Duke of Wurtemberg were being thwarted by the intervention of Niccolò Jommelli ( court Kapellmeister at Stuttgart ) who was attempting to prevent Germans from appearing before the Duke . |
| 7 | It is probable that this was a transitional period , in which cavalry techniques and the use of stirrups were being developed , while the earlier form of the armed group and shield wall was still extensively used . |
| 8 | One of their interventions , the family smoking education project , had worked in Norway , but at the same time as the price , availability , and promotion of cigarettes were being controlled . |
| 9 | At first their meeting places were simple , box-like structures but by the middle years of Victoria 's reign pompous new buildings in the Gothic style favoured by the Church of England were being built instead . |
| 10 | This is what occurred in the buyer 's factory but , because a number of ampoules were being washed together , the explosion was much greater than might have been predicted and the damage much more extensive . |
| 11 | He said that in spite of gloom and doom in some quarters about falling markets for offshore structures , a healthy number of projects were being proposed for approval and exploration success rates in the North Sea remained high . |
| 12 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |
| 13 | By early February there were reports of large numbers of dead shellfish on beaches , an increasing number of seals were being treated for internal problems caused by oil poisoning , and a quarter of the economically important salmon-farming industry appeared to be affected by the spill . |
| 14 | A couple of geldings were being loaded into the Lambourne . |
| 15 | The Economy Minister revealed that ‘ further good news ’ was in the pipeline , and hinted that a couple of projects were being negotiated . |
| 16 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |