Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue . |
| 2 | It is not particularly surprising that Coleman , a redoubtable big fish in a very small pond , although giving great attention to his early cases , later assumed a sometimes unjustified confidence , and came to believe , or at least teach , that the diseases of the horse were few as compared to those of man , and that he could carry all the drugs necessary for veterinary practice in his waistcoat pocket . |
| 3 | Kruk ( 1989 ) referring to non-custodial fathers in divorce , claims that those who arrived at some level of resolution of their grief were those who were in fact able to maintain regular contact with their child . |
| 4 | On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed . |
| 5 | Andy Holland now having shed the burdens of captaincy , took four for 24 in 19 overs and the home side were all out for 97 . |
| 6 | On the other side were more houses and a large building tentatively identified as an armoury or arsenal . |
| 7 | On the other side were both conservatives such as Jesse Helms , a Republican from North Carolina , and liberal Democrats such as Paul Sarbanes from Maryland . |
| 8 | He took five for 51 and the opposition were all out for 155 , Saul Clifford making 41 . |
| 9 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 10 | More popular — because they were cheaper — than the Joshua Marshall type of resurrection monument were those produced from the yard of John and Matthias Christmas . |
| 11 | The open jaws of a big barracuda were enough to keep most people out of the water and his party had n't shown themselves that keen over the past three days . |
| 12 | Some of the more interesting links along the west coast were those involving manufacturing inter-relationships . |
| 13 | The present and future were all that mattered and everybody started afresh . |
| 14 | The men in the farmyard were all Fallschirmjager , hard young men , old before their time with cropped hair . |
| 15 | Police say the raider 's van and the antique dealer 's car were both seen at a service station near Manchester last night , so the crime could have been planned . |
| 16 | The depleting ozone layer is the harshest example of this , but international determination of British society was always important and the idea of some insulated , ‘ British ’ , history is a nonsense : the reformation , the industrial revolution , the spread of universal suffrage were all international processes . |
| 17 | At Leicester , for instance , the changing benches , bath and lavatory were all in the same room . ’ |
| 18 | The levels of report in the Hughes and Cole study were all calculated per kilometre travelled . |
| 19 | The diagnoses presented in this study were those made in 1987 — that is , the conclusion reached after a median 15 ( 9–49 ) years of observation . |
| 20 | The criteria for selection to this study were those previously described by the Munich Study Group ( Table I ) with the exception of the stone characteristics . |
| 21 | I was petrified because all my sheets and tableclothes and all my cutlery and silver were all stamped with the Embassy crest . |
| 22 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 23 | They report that in general , the psychiatric outcome was good and that the patients who were not happy about the result were those few in whom the operation had not led to the expected weight loss . |
| 24 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 25 | Rotas and overtime were all organised by the porters themselves who were operating what amounted to their own business within the hotel . |
| 26 | The best appointments upon entry were those of writer , the junior civil rank , for such civilians , it was claimed in the course of a debate in the East India House , |
| 27 | There was no compensation by intact genomes , but the decreases in concentration were less than expected based on heteroplasmic levels . |
| 28 | Her body and mind were all at once throbbing with a barely suppressible aching need . |
| 29 | It is little wonder , then , that ostracism and gossip were such powerful ways of enforcing the values and standards of village life , nor that the criteria of status and prestige in the community also tended to be derived from the world of work . |
| 30 | She looked almost demure , she thought disparagingly , glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror 's fault . |