Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates . |
| 2 | JE : And Peter was by now in the company ? |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher was at least in a functional sense , beginning to show greater capacity for involvement in the life of the community , if without the passion of Edward Heath in the past . |
| 4 | In the Crown Court over 90% were for up to a year , and 50% under six months . |
| 5 | Knots of horsemen , as far as the eye could see , were moving along the banks of the Tay , firing the jetties that were not already broken , and two ferry boats crowded with men were in midstream on the Tay , hazed with smoke as they struck tinder into their torches . |
| 6 | Items such as computers and video recorders and cameras were until recently in the non-essential category . |
| 7 | Mum and Dad were over here for a holiday a while ago and they went to the Cotswolds which they said were beautiful . |
| 8 | The rave , attended by 2,000 people , was organised by Dance Planet from Oxford- shire and revellers were from all over the country . |
| 9 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 10 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 11 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |