Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [noun] " 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 | The others were Eston Park , Middlesbrough , and Henry Smith , Hartlepool . |
| 3 | yeah well um I do n't know , maybe she grew up when there were y'know smoking was surrounded by rather different attitudes . |
| 4 | Saturday 's evening 's soloists at the musical festival were Keir Rowe ( clarinet ) and Roger Bluff ( piano ) . |
| 5 | Even more especially if they were hydrogen bombs . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Among the invited guests were Beatrice Hastings and the lover who replaced Modigliani , Alfredo Pina . |
| 8 | Taylor 's group denied involvement , claiming that the attackers were Sierra Leonean dissidents . |
| 9 | ‘ Whilst one can needless to say appreciate your anxiety for one born to high estate and deprived over-soon of the protection of his sire , pray be assured that were King Edward of happy memory here with us now , he would urge you to relinquish your over-protectiveness of the prince . ’ |
| 10 | Formally dismissed were Vandi Ka-on , member of the Council of State and Chairman of the Assembly 's legislative commission ; Ung Phan , Minister of Communications , Transport and Posts ; and Chheng Phon , Minister of Information and Culture and member of the Assembly 's legislative commission . |
| 11 | The other English teams were Sussex Goldies , Derbyshire Friars , Brobdingnagarians and Downsmen Tofts . |
| 12 | Grace 's daughter Peggy had ballet lessons from Seraphina Astafieva , whose most famous pupils were Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin . |
| 13 | Among those released were Romulo Kintanar , the alleged head of the CPP 's military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , which had been engaged in a guerrilla war with the government since 1968 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Showered and changed , she went back into the gym and found Fräulein Silber standing modestly in the background while , very much in the foreground were Herr Wolf , from the National Stadium , and Fräulein Carow . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Chief of the musicians in that genre were Burl Ives and The Weavers . |
| 19 | They were story-book pictures . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor |
| 25 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Included in the pardon were General Leopoldo Galtieri , the former army commander and president , and 38 other officers who faced trial over the disappearance and presumed execution of almost 9,000 people during the 1976-83 military regime . |
| 28 | Wherever they were General Erskine 's thoughts were certainly not in accord with the French in Vietnam . |
| 29 | Among yesterday 's appointments were General Atanasie Stanculescu , a former deputy defence minister , as Minister of Economics , and General Mihai Ghitac as Interior Minister . |
| 30 | The others who died were Dean Sayer , 17 , of Silver Birch Close , Woolwell , and Claire Langley , 16 , of Clittisford Road , Southway , all Plymouth . |