Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine of the dead were Ayrshire people coming home for Christmas ; they were from Alloway , Annbank Station , Ayr and Troon . |
| 2 | They were desert folk waiting for the bus . |
| 3 | The professional 's charges in 1908 were 2s. 6d. ( 18 holes ) , 1s. 6d. ( nine holes ) and 2s. 0d. for a one-hour lesson , 3s. 0d. for two hours . |
| 4 | The directors then were Mr. V. A. Tee , Mr. P. A. Medland and Mr. R. L. Kissane . |
| 5 | Hammers Julian Dicks and Martin Allen were booked , as were Pompey pair Warren Aspinall and Clarke . |
| 6 | There were night staff all around them now ; porters , one of the late receptionists , even a couple of the busboys from the restaurant . |
| 7 | As to ( a ) accident , the Chief Justice 's examples were A's fruit falling upon C's land , or A's tree falling upon it by decay or being blown upon it by the wind . |
| 8 | Nine of the crew were BBC staff and the rest were independent . |
| 9 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 10 | They were 65ft 6in long , 9ft wide , and 8ft 1in high , carried on 11ft 6in wheel-base bogies mounted at 43ft 6in centres . |
| 11 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 12 | In the first nine months of the year , net profits were NKr 1041m ( against NKr 1897m in 1990 ) . |
| 13 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 14 | The weapons were FA-MAS 5.56mm assault rifles , recently issued to the French Armed Forces to replace the old FSA ( Fusil Semi-Automatique ) which had been in service since Algeria . |
| 15 | And what k what kind of response did you have erm from from erm tenants of the flats , I mean how how did you were people people generally friendly . |
| 16 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 17 | For the nine months January to September 1991 , net profits were Dfl 451m , down 33 per cent on the previous year , while turnover fell 7 per cent to Dfl 7260m . |
| 18 | The main instruments of Soviet influence were arms sales and direct subsidies , both expensive to maintain , and neither necessarily secured a permanent commitment ( Egypt and Somalia , for instance , abrogated their friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s , and the USSR was unable to prevent the replacement of a friendly regime in Grenada by American military action in 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Yet again , however , in international terms Britain 's record is far less impressive — over the late 1960s and early 1970s the averages were Japan 39% , West Germany 28% , France 27% , Netherlands 27% , Belgium 25% , Italy 21% , USA 18% [ Caves and Krause , 1980 ] . |
| 20 | A valor of Crown lands put the rents of Great Woolstone at £6. 13s. 4d. , or ten times what the survey states ; at North Crawley rents were £11. 12s. 9d. compared with 2s . |
| 21 | They were glen folk yes . |
| 22 | Louisa 's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies . |
| 23 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 24 | They were country people . |
| 25 | The first six-wheeled coaches were 30ft 6in long , 7ft 9in wide with a total wheel base of 18ft , the distance from centre to centre of the wheels being 9ft and the weight about 11. ¼ tons . |
| 26 | These were drugs people ? ’ |
| 27 | Liz Edmunds — they were fruit people — she was a nice kid . |
| 28 | Two thirds of all Clio sales were conquest sales from buyers who previously owned cars from other manufacturers — much more than the industry average of 50% . |
| 29 | Even more determined were Hastings folk to get as speedy an end to the Nazi brutes as we could . |
| 30 | There was drug paraphernalia all over the house . |