Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Machiavelli problem would be instantly recognisable to hordes of would-be and once-were government officials in today 's world : ‘ policy intellectuals ’ , as Americans call them . |
| 2 | Even more especially if they were hydrogen bombs . ’ |
| 3 | Whether they were missiles or bombs was not disclosed : what was disclosed was that they were hydrogen devices , each one in the monster megaton range , twelve to fifteen megatons . |
| 4 | World exports that year were 70m bags — of which Brazil 's quota was only 16.5m bags , according to the Economist Intelligence Unit , a sister company of The Economist . |
| 5 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 6 | They were story-book pictures . |
| 7 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 8 | There were tricoleur roundels on its wings , but on the fuselage the fierce head of an Indian brave in full war feathers was an insignia that had not been seen before . |
| 9 | To some it was ‘ yellow and flayed , without a patch of green ’ to others a compound of brown , grey and black , where the only forms were shell holes . |
| 10 | Of the 650 members in the parliament of 1305 , 240 were prelates and clerical proctors , 200 were burgess representatives , and 177 were lay barons and knights of the shire ; 33 — many of them clerics — were royal councillors and ministers . |
| 11 | They were leet hangers . |
| 12 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 13 | On the way home , filled with an indigestible mixture of relief and regret , Peter observed that there were removal vans once again outside Loxford Old Rectory . |
| 14 | Each of these representatives , all of whom were personnel directors or senior managers reporting directly to the board , participated in a structured interview ( see Appendix for details ) which focused on the stimuli , dynamics and politics of the change process . |
| 15 | And then there were trick films . |
| 16 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 17 | The players who might be worth persevering with such as Hinchcliffe , Cottee and Beagrie , are usually the fall guys ( surely not because they were Harvey signings ? ) |
| 18 | When the first edition rolled off the presses for the waiting newsboys , there were hansom cabs and gas lights on the streets of Belfast . |
| 19 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 20 | The parish register from 1 January 1813 to 31 December 1817 records the occupations of 74 men , of whom 51 ( that is nearly 70 per cent ) were framework knitters ; the rest comprised 12 labourers , 2 woolcombers , 2 blacksmiths , a framesmith , a farmer and grazier , a publican , a gardener , a tailor , a brick mason and a soldier . |
| 21 | Between 1833 and 1837 ( inclusive ) 61 per cent were framework knitters , but by 1867–71 the proportion had declined to 49 per cent . |
| 22 | In the neighbouring parish of Cosby the 1851 census returns show that both William and Mary Burbage , a couple in their forties , were working at frames , that the four eldest of their ten children were framework knitters , and that three more children worked at seaming ; the youngest worker was Elizabeth , aged six . |
| 23 | The parish register records 91 men between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , of whom 60 , that is 2 out of every 3 , were framework knitters . |
| 24 | A count of the 237 heads of households in the 1851 census returns reveals that 143 ( that is 60 per cent ) were framework knitters . |
| 25 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 26 | I do not intend to comment in detail on the 1992 results of the individual companies except to mention that the principal contributors to this improvement were NBS Services Ltd , and Library Planning Consultants Ltd , RIBA Publications Ltd. held their position , and recorded their usual satisfactory return on sales . |
| 27 | Oh yes there were watch houses here |
| 28 | Early page printing systems , such as the Canon CX engine used in printers like the HP LaserJet , were bitmap devices . |
| 29 | What , were atom bombs really powerful ? |
| 30 | The leader of the Rally for Democracy and National Unity ( RDUN ) , Ahmed Mokhtar Sidi Baba , pointed out in an open letter to the CMSN that 200 of the country 's 208 mayors were PRDS supporters . |