Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Costa Rica and Venezuela issued cautious statements criticising the use of force , and despite phone calls from Mr Bush and the Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , there were signs Brazil and Argentina were preparing critical statements . |
| 3 | Unlike Jane , Mark did not feel that he would have been better off taking a different subject ; he had decided that he was unsuited to any kind of academic work , although most of his friends were arts students . |
| 4 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 5 | Wives should n't talk thus about their husbands , she thought resentfully , especially when they were clergy wives . |
| 6 | Many of the early Willses were yeomen farmers . |
| 7 | In Lichfield , Staffordshire last week for the 17th Lichfield Literary Dinner were authors Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington . |
| 8 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 9 | Some of which were songs John and I had written together . |
| 10 | Crawford and Cossins were brothers Tom and Henry in the play . |
| 11 | Team Knockout winners were Hamsteels Inn ; Singles Knockout winner , Karl Bushby ( Deerness Valley Hotel ) ; Doubles Knockout winners : Brian Trainor and his brother Anthony ( Esh and Waterhouses ) ; most singles winner Brian Trainor . |
| 12 | Well I know er it were Wednesdays Joyce used to come in . |
| 13 | I goes well all the , all the questions were matters science and she were n't any good at that |
| 14 | But these were grassroots reggae music , and ‘ Catch A Fire ’ represents the first time that Marley — or indeed any reggae artist other than Jimmy Cliff — had ever been given the budget that a rock band got to record an LP . |
| 15 | His clients were sports stars like jockey Pat Eddery and boxer Lennox Lewis . |
| 16 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 17 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 18 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 19 | These were things booksellers could provide . |
| 20 | The moral niceties , the aesthetic sensibilities , the philosophical abstractions of even the most progressive wing of conventional public opinion were luxuries Russia could not afford . |
| 21 | The description might have more applicability if there were rights enforcement officers to aid unrepresented applicants . |
| 22 | ‘ Both his parents were Cattle Dogs , but they were the red variety . |
| 23 | In Weller v. Foot and Mouth Disease Research Institute , however , Widgery J. briefly held that the defendants could not be liable to the plaintiffs under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , because the plaintiffs , who were cattle auctioneers , had no interest in any land to which the virus could have escaped . |
| 24 | Yet I had such a deep longing for the romantic friendship , for the ami amant , for that ‘ someone to watch over me ’ , that I was often half tempted to succumb to the wiles of youths I felt pretty sure were plain-clothes detectives from the Vice Squad or undercover agents for MI5 . |
| 25 | Also upset were managers Terry Venables of Tottenham and Brian Clough of Nottingham Forest , who say they will be taking legal action . |
| 26 | Among the issues raised were ex-servicemen s grievances . |
| 27 | Were comments Records made on previous work ? |
| 28 | New to Test cricket were Victorians Wayne Phillips , an opener and no relation to the former Test wicketkeeper/batsman , and fast-medium bowler Paul Reiffel . |
| 29 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |
| 30 | Accompanying the king to the continent were Bishops Burghersh of Lincoln , Orleton of Winchester and Richard de Bury of Durham , as well as Archbishop John Stratford and Canon Kilsby . |