Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO of BSkyB 's senior presenters were off air last night after a spectacular bust-up . |
| 2 | I think she were off work last week . |
| 3 | A few were off duty that evening . |
| 4 | Commercial and manufacturing premises were also widely damaged , and swathes of war-damaged land were for years eloquent testimony to both the urgency of the problem , and of course the potential scope for imaginative solutions . |
| 5 | The company is second in exports only to British Aerospace , which were worth £3.1bn last year . |
| 6 | Third , a Personal Monitoring exercise should be carried out to reassure employees that background levels were below HSE Occupational Exposure limits . |
| 7 | Dalian Atkinson and Yorke all playing were of course different class |
| 8 | The same logic was evident in the self justification offered by one of the parents who in 1987 withdrew their children from a school in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury because the majority of pupils were of South Asian origin . |
| 9 | Tumour grading and tumour invasion were of borderline statistical significance . |
| 10 | Rush ( three knee ops ) , Ronnie Whelan ( knee ) , Rob Jones ( shins ) , Wright ( hamstring ) and Barnes ( heel and calf ) were under treatment last time . |
| 11 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 12 | EFFORTS TO reach a compromise over a move to ban all trade in ivory were under way last night as delegates gathered for the conference of the world 's wildlife monitoring organisation . |
| 13 | Katherine and Sarah were in petrol blue velvet dresses and wore circlets of spring flowers on their heads . |
| 14 | The real surprises were in CO 2 production under each scenario . |
| 15 | Some 140 full-time workers are now resident and around 3,000 short-term workers were in Albania this summer . |
| 16 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 17 | Unix Systems Laboratories president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting Novell chief were in Japan last week explaining to USL 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut . |
| 18 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 19 | Expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world in search of scientific novelties were in vogue that season as they had never been before . |
| 20 | The last time they played at Worthing — when Alton were in Division II South — the then skipper Alan Fleetwood broke an ankle and after being easily the better side , Alton lost by just one point . |
| 21 | He were n't very well yesterday at all , he were in bed all day . |
| 22 | yesterday I were in bed all day I could n't move ! |
| 23 | Today they were in oyster grey velvet . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , only the cheerleaders were in evidence last night . |
| 25 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 26 | The Government has estimated if the replacement for the poll tax were in force this year the bill for a Darlington house worth up to £40,000 would be £301 . |
| 27 | Coventry City were in front one minute before half time in their home tie with Southampton : Kilkline the scorer . |
| 28 | There were three , well there we were in fact four coal merchants in the in the town . |
| 29 | Because of the cleverness of the script , they assumed that these were in fact proper news broadcasts . |
| 30 | A great number of the OBOE pilots were in fact Blind Approach Training ( BAT ) instructors and the hurdle was 1,000 hours on a BAT Flight , the relationship to PFF OBOE work here being too obvious to detail . |