Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gough thought that the Lloyds were possibly the most ancient family in Myddle village . |
| 2 | The East Anglian side were also the culprits the last time Atkinson hit an all-time low , when Ipswich beat his West Brom side in the 1978 FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 3 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 4 | my legs were never the least bit apart — |
| 5 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |
| 6 | Marx and Engels were probably the first to demonstrate this so emphatically . |
| 7 | The first results of the demonstration and violence were much the same as after the Olympia meeting in 1934 ; there was an immediate stimulus to recruitment for both fascists and communists and Special Branch estimated the significant , if transient , boost to fascist membership in East London to be around 2,000 . |
| 8 | Protheroe and Latimer were n't the only people who had trouble tracking Culley down . |
| 9 | Journalists were also the targets of violence in other countries such as Pakistan , India , Togo , Sudan and the USA . |
| 10 | Unlike their children , Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were not the subject of much trivial gossip . |
| 11 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 12 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 13 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 14 | It is not clear that the rules in Common Law and Equity were quite the same on these subjects ; but , at any rate , Equity had a special protection for the party who had suffered . |
| 15 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 16 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 17 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | True , the political parties were not the only forums in which the idea of citizenship was being debated from the mid-1980s . |
| 19 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 20 | The rogues of the piece were undoubtedly the well established firm of Hodder and Stoughton , who seemed to have had an unusual and complex system of their own . |
| 21 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 22 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 23 | Arrows , crossbow-bolts and throwing-spears flew , but the enemy were much the more vulnerable , and the attempt failed . |
| 24 | The great rat 's eyes were exactly the same . |
| 25 | With a squeal , a scantily clad girl whose eyes were twice the normal human size scampered out , to be caught by one of those guards and led away . |
| 26 | Among the sinecures were chiefly the remaining canonries in cathedrals and colleges . |
| 27 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 28 | These images were precisely the same as those invoked by Tory propaganda . |
| 29 | The Scots were also the first home union to introduce a fully competitive league programme , which they did in season 1973/74 . |
| 30 | Luckier still , out of the British pot pourri , Scots were definitely the best of the lot . |