Example sentences of "[noun prp] [ex0] were [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carvajál pointed out that in rural areas such as those around San Carlos there were schools without functioning water pumps or sanitary services . |
| 2 | WHEN the new Irish Cup , presented by Belfast jewellers John H Lunn was unveiled at a reception in Bass Ireland there were gasps of awe — and rightly so ( writes Malcolm Brodie ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In northern England there were branches of the family with interests in ships and trading , and eventually Edward ended up with them , on a roving brief . |
| 5 | However , by July there were signs of more serious trouble and City analysts believed that Eurotunnel might need a further £1bn to pay for a near tripling in the cost of the shuttle fleet and meet the rapidly increasing costs of labour and materials in South East England . |
| 6 | At the end of March Harold Wilson had increased his majority from 4 to 94 in the General Election , but significantly in July there were arrests outside the US embassy of protesters against the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong . |
| 7 | T. D. There were men on the opposite beat and sometimes you could spend a little time talking to them as long as you were n't caught . |
| 8 | The boy was shaking , and when he looked up at Rory there were tears in his eyes . |
| 9 | From mid-October and into early November there were disturbances on the university campus in Oujda , and less seriously in Fez , Meknes and Kenitra , as Islamic fundamentalist students clashed with secularist opponents , in some cases supporters of the National Union of Moroccan students ( UNEM ) . |
| 10 | In late October there were reports of heavy fighting in Kapisa and Parwan provinces north of Khabul between Hezb-i-Islami guerrillas and Uzbek fighters loyal to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 11 | Radical change was embraced most enthusiastically in Poland , Hungary and , after a critical interlude , in Czechoslovakia , whilst in East Germany there were moves towards reunification with the West . |
| 12 | Thank God there were moments like this among the traumas of veterinary work ; the sudden transition from despair to triumph , from shame to pride . |
| 13 | Thus in Jaca there were allotments for the poor labourers and no agrarian destitute class ; around Saragossa the labourers had enforced a customary eight-hour day and worked in their free hours on their own plots ; but on the great estates of dry Aragon labour conditions could only be matched in Andalusia . |
| 14 | In Holland there were pockets of resistance . |
| 15 | When General Motors took a 40% share of Isuzu there were rumours of the Trooper becoming a Vauxhall , but it did n't . |
| 16 | While in France there were signs of a reassessment of the building programme ( which was reduced in the late 1980s from 15,000 to 13,000 new places ) the expansion in the United States has continued unabated . |
| 17 | Throughout April there were reports of confrontations between demonstrators and security forces . |
| 18 | At mass demonstrations in Baku there were calls for the Azerbaijan authorities either to reassert full sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh or to resign . |
| 19 | In Tsarist Russia , icons were often placed in railway-station waiting-rooms and in Greece there were shrines at stations where the traveller could light candles to protect him on his journey . |
| 20 | And after the resignations of Heseltine and Brittan there were signs of a revival of collegiality in the Cabinet Room . |
| 21 | In mid-March there were riots in the capital after students demanded payment of their overdue grants and cuts in the cost of university meals and accommodation . |
| 22 | Once upon a time in Belfast there were bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Rudi . |