Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm unless it 's actually a meeting that you 're recording use the other things cos they 're just they 've got bigger spaces for writing down what people 's first words were and stuff like that , |
| 2 | Some august partnerships , such as Herbert Smith , long disdained the idea of working out what their profitable strengths were and then marketing them hard . |
| 3 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |
| 4 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 5 | Already the shadows were receding from the room and she could see the darkness where his eyes were and the lighter line of his beloved lips . |
| 6 | The Arc Info maps , says Wright , helped solve issues such as how the proven play systems worked , what the exploration and development opportunities were and the impact of these on investment plans . |
| 7 | Some of these animals were and are big : one species which existed around the time of the catastrophe was 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 8 | The clergy were and still are in a special position , holding power over the laity because of it . |
| 9 | There was a struggle for the polytechnics to define , in private and in public , what the characteristics of the polytechnics were and should remain . |
| 10 | At some stage , children become stronger than their parents ; they often become more intelligent , quicker-thinking … they may also be better-educated than their parents were and even better-off financially . |
| 11 | On a macro scale , this is of course how Blacks were and to a large extent are still viewed : as a disruptive , damaging force disturbing the previously calm , stable landscape of cultural superiority . |
| 12 | The movements were and still are practised because they are designed to display the body as it moves to the best advantage from the audience 's point of view . |
| 13 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 14 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 15 | In the first programme , we visited Egypt , Pompeii , the Tivoli , glimpsed Central Park ( are muggers seeking Adam ? ) , and our own Kew en route to establishing that gardens were and are a universal obsession . |
| 16 | Who the other two directors were and whether they were justifiably hiding behind pseudonyms is a matter for conjecture . |
| 17 | And , and it was , and even deciding on where the training needs were and writing them down and , and setting targets it , I do n't know it just seemed to happen , erm difficult at all . |
| 18 | Two of leading research workers were and , who later collaborated with and me as authors of A Grammar of Contemporary English , ( GCE ) published by Longman in 1972. , a swede , had been a research student of at Durham , and followed him to London . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , the ambiguous segments were and , followed by kiss would probably win out over such competitors as kick , kitsch , etc and give , Gish , etc . |
| 20 | As he explains ( 1987 , pp. 19–20 ) the essential objective was to ‘ find out what was happening in my department and who was responsible for making it happen , who had set the targets , what the targets were and whether they were being monitored . |
| 21 | The basis of the system was to establish what was happening , who was responsible , what the targets were and whether they were being monitored ( see Greenwood and Wilson , 1989 , p. 125 ) . |
| 22 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 23 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 24 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 25 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 26 | you know what it was like , what things were and |
| 27 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 28 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 29 | The tables were and would remain empty . |
| 30 | ‘ Declare : ( 1 ) That on the taking of the accounts and inquiry order to be made and taken herein by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 the plaintiffs are entitled to raise objection to items in the defendants ' said accounts on the grounds that the items were and are unreasonable in amount but so that any doubts are to be resolved in favour of the defendants . |