Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] [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 | 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 | Even more especially if they were hydrogen bombs . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were story-book pictures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were leet hangers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It carried 2543 men , of whom 2100 were category C aliens , refugees from the RCM and Youth Allyah were on board : Alfred Cooper was among them : |
| 20 | And then there were trick films . |
| 21 | When the first edition rolled off the presses for the waiting newsboys , there were hansom cabs and gas lights on the streets of Belfast . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Between 1833 and 1837 ( inclusive ) 61 per cent were framework knitters , but by 1867–71 the proportion had declined to 49 per cent . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The parish register records 91 men between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , of whom 60 , that is 2 out of every 3 , were framework knitters . |
| 28 | A count of the 237 heads of households in the 1851 census returns reveals that 143 ( that is 60 per cent ) were framework knitters . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Winners of the 1993 Scottish Nuclear News five-a-side football competition were Torness Team 1 of . |