Example sentences of "was [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 2 | The burden increased when it became clear that it was schools who would be held principally responsible in implementing the national curriculum , in taking the first steps in teacher appraisal and in managing their finances . |
| 3 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |
| 4 | In Darlington it was ties he was after , opting for a restrained paisley pattern at £7.99 to replace his classic blue and white polka dot number . |
| 5 | Yet it was Libyans who demanded bloodwealth from the state . |
| 6 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
| 7 | The next thing was one of lift , right , her shirt right up , she had a black , like silk bra on and pushes her tits together and the next thing was waves her bra about ! |
| 8 | The woman would probably think it was kids who had stolen them . |
| 9 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 10 | I wa I usually and then lock it and th and when there was visitors she opened up and she left the front door wide open and in there rummaging around ! |
| 11 | NOT so long ago , it was bankers who were telling businessmen what to do . |
| 12 | And then there was Camels one there . |
| 13 | It was republicans who argued their case , not those who took monarchy for granted . |
| 14 | In fact th the older kind I that I mind of there was places you could even sit in the nook . |
| 15 | The Farmers ' Union of Wales had said it was fishermen who should be made to pay . |
| 16 | Oh there was tracks There 's is that and the fact er they can go out that way with their Land Rovers and things |
| 17 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 18 | There was cleaks there was er cleaks in er in Most of the kitchens had rafters , a lot of them , and there was cleaks just specially for the hanging the pigs and the er the hams of the And then you left them until they were fairly dry , and then you had to cover them well and truly with a for all summer , because the fly would go for them , if the were n't properly salted and dry . |
| 19 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 20 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 21 | And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions . |
| 22 | Recall that it was three-year-olds who had difficulty with Flavell 's appearance-versus-reality problems ; and indeed further experiments have shown that there is a strong statistical correlation between performance on the appearance-reality and on the false belief task . |
| 23 | Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next . |
| 24 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 25 | And it was lesbians who , without heterosexual credentials or cover , took the heavy risks and , consequently , the heavy blows . |
| 26 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 27 | First it was machines which pattern with buttons , then machines with punchcards , next electronics with mylar sheets and later build-in patterns . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I expect Mr Gajdusek will give you time off to compensate , ’ she suggested , holding down more remarks , though in actual fact it was questions which sprang to her lips : where had Mr Gajdusek gone and how long would he be away ? |
| 29 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 30 | Oh I thought it was pears you were short of |