Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The others were Eston Park , Middlesbrough , and Henry Smith , Hartlepool . |
| 2 | yeah well um I do n't know , maybe she grew up when there were y'know smoking was surrounded by rather different attitudes . |
| 3 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 4 | The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago . |
| 5 | One such was General Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr , president of the republic from 1968 until 1979 , when he was succeeded by his kinsman Saddam Hussein ; others were Defence Minister Adnan Khairallah and Saddam 's half-brother Barazan , head of the Mukhabarat , or Internal Intelligence . |
| 6 | Why were the offices of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign illegally searched , and why were Defence Campaign staff arrested practically on site as they tried to enter the estate ? |
| 7 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 8 | Another point to bear in mind is that in 1988 only 35 per cent of the 400,000 new jobs created were full time : 34 per cent were part time and 31 per cent were in self employment . |
| 9 | Among the prize winners were Kenneth Arrow , Lawrence Klein , Franco Modigliani , William Sharpe , Robert Solo and James Tobin . |
| 10 | Also receiving OBEs were ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , who was at the investiture with his wife ITN newsreader Carol Barnes , and former England cricket manager Micky Stewart . |
| 11 | In the inclusive tours section the runners-up were Lincoln Travel of Peterlee and Callers Pegasus of Stockton . |
| 12 | Among his commissions after his father 's death were Victoria Park , Glossop ( 1887–8 ) ; Yeatton Peverey , Shropshire ( 1890 ) ; and Keszthely , Hungary ( 1885 ) , for Count Festetics . |
| 13 | Granddad did n't use slang because he were Norfolk man . |
| 14 | The only technologies considered to be difficult to implement were wave power , hot dry rocks and aquifers , although they have adequate supplies of hot dry rocks . |
| 15 | Winners of the 1993 Scottish Nuclear News five-a-side football competition were Torness Team 1 of . |
| 16 | Stars of the Scottish AGM of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were Torness health physics monitor , Johnnie Johnstone , ( pictured above ) who is coxswain of the Eyemouth lifeboat , and his crew . |
| 17 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not one for shilly-shallying , as well you know , Forest — in the event , I should make sure you were Will Slaughter 's next victim . ’ |
| 19 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 20 | Simon Johnson ( 44 ) and Neil Burnett ( 55no ) were Boldon Comprehensive 's 116 for three against George Stephenson Community High School from Killingworth . |
| 21 | They were ghastly , the more discerning smokers vowed they were 50% weed , 50% elephant dung ! |
| 22 | Bill Frisell 's earliest influences were Jim Hall , Wes Montgomery and Jimi Hendrix , and in his own playing he combines the various aspects of their styles to form an amalgam of jazz finesse , rock explosiveness and avant-garde experimentation . |
| 23 | These were cheque no 000075 for £10.98 and no 000076 for £829.83 . |
| 24 | The main sources for the movement as it developed between 1880 and the early 1900s , were University Settlement Houses , Public School Missions , the ‘ Independents ’ , and the motley collection of local parish clubs and others , many of which were affiliated to larger parent organizations , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , BB , YMCA , the Wesley Guild of Youth , and the Army Cadets . |
| 25 | The next best were University College , London ; Imperial , London ; Edinburgh ; Warwick and Nottingham . |
| 26 | The principal " devil " parties were Chart Thai and Chart Patthana . |
| 27 | Rival aspirants were Lin Yang-kang , the popular head of the judiciary , and Chiang Wei-kuo , National Security Council General Secretary and sole surviving son of Chiang Kai-shek . |
| 28 | ‘ Among the 684 errors in our system when no grammar was used , 334 were function word errors . |
| 29 | Here they were ‘ captured ’ by Rangers who thought the canoeists were enemy torpedo riders — human torpedoes . |
| 30 | The veins were stretch elastic , the arteries chunky squid . |