Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A squadron of British Hussars were on duty in the rue de la Blanchisserie to keep the beggars away from the wealthy . |
| 2 | Charles was soon to find out what Lothar 's words were worth . |
| 3 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 4 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 5 | His most emotional words were about his fellow hostage and friend who he called John boy . |
| 6 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 7 | The words were to be simply interpreted ( p202 ) . |
| 8 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 9 | This explanation is consistent with the finding that monitoring latencies were considerably slower in the two conditions where preceding words were of considerably less help in predicting target words . |
| 10 | That is why there is so much stress in Luke 's account of the life of Jesus that his deeds and words were at the inspiration of the Spirit ( Luke 4:1,14 ; 10:21 ; 23:46 , etc . ) . |
| 11 | Roman 's words were like a drug , pouring over her , evoking those helpless , hypnotic feelings of need and desire and hunger all over again . |
| 12 | The words were like a slap in the face . |
| 13 | The words were like stones in his mouth . |
| 14 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 15 | His words were like a slap across her face . |
| 16 | His words were like drops of ice , and every one hurt her more than she could have believed possible . |
| 17 | Kingdom 's words were like harsh daylight flooding into a photographer 's dark-room . |
| 18 | His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses . |
| 19 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 20 | His words were like a body-blow . |
| 21 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 22 | All the words were in place — ‘ I would not wish this on my worst enemy ’ ; ‘ Sam 's safety is my only concern ’ ; ‘ I appeal to the public to help in any way they can ’ ; ‘ I beg those who are holding her to let her go ’ — but the heart seemed strangely absent . |
| 23 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 24 | Dreamer spoke to her , but the words were in a different voice from the boy 's . |
| 25 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 26 | ’ Yuan said , conscious of how far their talk had come ; of how far his father 's words were from what he normally professed to believe . |
| 27 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |
| 28 | Mothers were generally confident enough about the product not to show much spontaneous concern , but these characteristics were of significance to them . |
| 29 | On the other hand the research showed that training could be valued and programmes could be maintained , if certain characteristics were in evidence . |
| 30 | Omelettes were to be made without the breaking of eggs . |