Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 2 | On one side were the Marxist commandantes , puppets of a giant colonizing power , in their camouflage fatigues and their designer sunglasses , carrying foreign ideology like a loathsome bacillus ; on the other the indigenous peasants , barefoot , in straw hats , driven to the point of taking up arms . |
| 3 | In front of them to one side were the CEGB representatives , led by Lord Silsoe with streamlined efficiency . |
| 4 | Farrs fronted Brown Street ; on the left hand side were the sliding glass doors to the showroom , just large enough to take one vehicle . |
| 5 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |
| 6 | On the other side were the proponents of a new " music of the future " ( Zukunftsmusik ) , represented by Berlioz , Liszt , and above all , Wagner , whose restless chromatic explorations , culminating at this period in Tristan und Isolde ( finished in 1859 ) and the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1854–74 ) , most radically undermined traditional diatonic stability . |
| 7 | On the catastrophists ' side were the Tories arid the Church ( the episcopalian Church of England , of course ) . |
| 8 | Also on that side were the late John Joe Sands , Martin Walsh , the Down team doctor for the past three decades , and Malachy Finnegan , a former President of the College . |
| 9 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 10 | On the north side were the training huts , one for chemical and bacteriological agents , one for firearms and explosives and one for ideological instruction . |
| 11 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 12 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 13 | He hated prisons , even the so-called modern set-ups where the relations between prisoner and prison-officer were the best that could be hoped for , and violence was minimal . |
| 14 | The two main issues in the Miyagi contest were the state of the country 's economy , and the current spate of scandals surrounding the Miyazawa government . |
| 15 | Morality and pacifist emotion were the driving forces behind much of the uninformed criticism of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 16 | Other events which contributed to the decline of the madeira wine industry were the American Civil War ( which meant a temporary loss of the American market ) and the opening of the Suez Canal ( which meant a reduction in the number of ships calling at Madeira ) . |
| 17 | When I read Coal News after our last coal debate , it appeared as though the only people to speak on behalf of the mining industry were the hon. Member for Sherwood and his hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) . |
| 18 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 19 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 20 | Wages for unskilled labour were the lowest , being significantly below even shop workers who are generally recognised to be among the most intensely exploited ( except that their hours were much longer ) . |
| 21 | Politically , the leaders of organized labour were the most determined campaigners on the pensioners ' behalf . |
| 22 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 23 | In the following car were the Sheikha , her daughter , Hussa and Selma who were to accompany us to London . |
| 24 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 25 | However , the high incidence of dangerous lobon-gur solutions was very worrying , especially since those unions in the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme were the greatest offenders . |
| 26 | Other notable elements of the programme were the planned privatization of one-third of small businesses in the trade and consumer services sector by the end of 1991 , and complete price liberalization by October . |
| 27 | Sociology and anthropology were the application of these principles to understanding how people behave . |
| 28 | The bathroom and the lavatory were the only places where I could be myself and on my Own . |
| 29 | Two major exceptions to the general divide were the secondary schools in Fivemiletown and Ballycastle , where shortage of catholic equivalents resulted in de facto integration . |
| 30 | The most interesting results of the study were the relationships observed between risk ratings and P(A) within these sets of items . |