Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 2 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 3 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 4 | During the later part of my career , I was University Estates Officer to the new University of York from the university 's inception in ninety sixty three until my retirement . |
| 5 | The groining tended to begin in places such as Brighton and Hove , where which were holiday areas , and who wanted to make sure they kept their beach , and wanted if possible to even enlarge their beach and certainly the urban area of the resort developed . |
| 6 | This dependence is demonstrated in the subsidiary status of their churches , which were daughter churches to the minster . |
| 7 | Some of which were cover versions that one or other of us had found . |
| 8 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 9 | WEU Foreign Ministers , meeting in the margins of the summit , adopted a declaration which included commitments to ( i ) elaborate and implement decision and actions of the Union with defence implications ; ( ii ) invite EC countries not then WEU members ( i.e. Denmark and Greece — which were NATO members — and neutral Ireland ) to join ; and ( iii ) move the WEU headquarters from London to Brussels . |
| 10 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 11 | Until last year , TI had two main businesses — John Crane engineered seals and Bundy fluid carrying systems , both of which were world leaders in their fields and boasted multi-million pound turnovers . |
| 12 | A total of 147 aircraft , 121 of which were combat planes ( including some of the best possessed by Iraq ) , found refuge in Iran . |
| 13 | Professor Hoskins divided towns into those he called planned , those described as open-field towns and those which were market towns . |
| 14 | E/1 cars these Croydon cars had folding platform steps , on the backs of which were side lifeguards , which came into position when the steps were folded up . |
| 15 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 16 | That 's slightly up on 1991 when the firm sold a total of 5,225 workstations worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 17 | The label was sewn on to the crinkled , elasticated hem of the pants , which were boxer shorts , blue-and-white-striped like mattress ticking . |
| 18 | She indicated a silver dish on which were cucumber sandwiches one inch square . |
| 19 | 'E was drinkin' pints o' porter , ’ he informed Nellie . |
| 20 | The presence of atrophy was strongly associated with H pylori infection : 10 of 11 old subjects with atrophy were H pylori positive whereas only one of 12 who were H pylori negative had atrophy ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 21 | The median ages of the uraemic patients were 51 years ( range 34–73 ) in those who were H pylori positive and 49 years ( range 27–67 ) in those who were H pylori negative . |
| 22 | The median ages of the uraemic patients were 51 years ( range 34–73 ) in those who were H pylori positive and 49 years ( range 27–67 ) in those who were H pylori negative . |
| 23 | People who were housegroup leaders may no longer have a group to lead . |
| 24 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 25 | A higher proportion also had only one child , but that is primarily due to the very high proportion of divorced women in this tenure ( in the 1946 birth cohort , 32 per cent of women who were council tenants were divorced by age 36 ) . |
| 26 | The railway and the quarries were the property of two brothers called McConnel , who were mill owners from Lancashire . |
| 27 | The tax status of companies registered in Monaco , and of residents who were EC nationals , would have to be revised and reduced receipts from value added tax ( VAT ) were expected . |
| 28 | Room was also found in one act for men of £5 per annum plus yeomen , or servants , who were 40s. freeholders . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The ‘ network ’ method was adopted as a general principle , and several Belfast University students who were Lurgan residents were located as initial contacts . |