Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] were [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 2 | Goreng had been worried it might be a set-up — paranoia and distrust were that army 's staple — and he 'd assured Martinho that he 'd be the first to go if that was the case . |
| 3 | THE Mayor and mayoress were all smiles and kisses during a grand ceremony to hand them their chains of office . |
| 4 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 5 | James Caunce , Mayor of St Helens , said : ‘ I joined the march because my father and grandfather were both miners and we need to fight to preserve Parkside and all those men 's jobs . |
| 6 | For if retribution and denunciation were all punishment achieved , the criminal 's freedom would be gratuitously diminished without this doing anything to improve anyone 's prospects for exercising choice . |
| 7 | Not until the years of fast industrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied . |
| 8 | Donkey , wolf , squirrel , and bird were all animals named in the Book of Remembering . |
| 9 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 10 | Some of the marriages could certainly be described as taking place within the traditional milieu of the skilled working class : thus Flora H. , daughter of a blacksmith , married the son of a cabinet maker ( bride and groom were both compositors ) . |