Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 2 | His words were the signal for Lord Hartington to send champagne in to the press room at Cheltenham , acknowledging the role of journalists in drawing attention to the problem . |
| 3 | For the disciples round the cross the words were the pronouncement of doom : the end of hope and meaning , the extinction of faith , defeat . |
| 4 | As well as the transformation of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes into real parks , as opposed to an ‘ arid waste covered by trees ’ ( the words were the Emperor 's ) , an attempt was made to endow all the areas of the city with small squares , which were in essence miniature parks ranging in size from one-quarter of an acre to six acres . |
| 5 | ‘ When you ask these people ‘ What were the most important factors in your success ? ’ , they all say the main aspects were the importance of teamworking between all contributors , the clear identification of what had to be achieved for success . |
| 6 | Mandy Sowerby and Spencer were the scorers . |
| 7 | So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in . |
| 8 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |
| 9 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 10 | In front of them to one side were the CEGB representatives , led by Lord Silsoe with streamlined efficiency . |
| 11 | On the catastrophists ' side were the Tories arid the Church ( the episcopalian Church of England , of course ) . |
| 12 | On the north side were the training huts , one for chemical and bacteriological agents , one for firearms and explosives and one for ideological instruction . |
| 13 | On the other side were the proponents of a new " music of the future " ( Zukunftsmusik ) , represented by Berlioz , Liszt , and above all , Wagner , whose restless chromatic explorations , culminating at this period in Tristan und Isolde ( finished in 1859 ) and the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1854–74 ) , most radically undermined traditional diatonic stability . |
| 14 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 15 | He and his friends had always agreed that English women 's legs were the disaster of Europe but , he was pleased to see , this girl 's were different . |
| 16 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop and Glengormley 's Jeremy McWilliams were the stars of the show at yesterday 's European Short Circuit Championship meeting , organised by the Coleraine club at Kirkistown . |
| 17 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop and Glengormley 's Jeremy McWilliams were the stars of the show at yesterday 's European Short Circuit Championship meeting , organised by the Coleraine club at Kirkistown . |
| 18 | The Sheds were the Shrewsbury ones . |
| 19 | The dominant styles were the cottage and the colonial bungalow for country stations and a variety of appealing Italianate and Renaissance forms for the stations of cities and towns . |
| 20 | The two computers on offer from the DoI for secondary schools were the BBC Acorn microcomputer and Research Machines 380Z . |
| 21 | Although her schools were the centre of her life , her view of public affairs was in no way restricted . |
| 22 | The two main issues in the Miyagi contest were the state of the country 's economy , and the current spate of scandals surrounding the Miyazawa government . |
| 23 | What Gordon found was that the passages rewritten by the class containing the most poor readers were the ones which were subsequently found to be the most comprehensible . |
| 24 | Reasons not attributable to readers were the querying of pressmarks which proved , on examination , to be correct ( 15% ) , and the sending of the wrong book against a correctly-completed call-slip ( 8% ) . |
| 25 | Battle of Britain Air Display , RAF Finningley , September 19 Dominating the aircraft at Finningley were the F-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels team . |
| 26 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 27 | Originally , the Calends were the days of new moon and the Ides the days of full moon . |
| 28 | Their most damaging impacts were the introduction of diseases and alcohol addiction , which incapacitated and occasionally destroyed whole communities ( ibid . ) . |
| 29 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 30 | The railway and the quarries were the property of two brothers called McConnel , who were mill owners from Lancashire . |