Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 2 | All that dealers needed was the ability to persist after the phone had been slammed down on them . |
| 3 | Last October Paul Biya won Cameroon 's presidential election , in a vote that observers said was fraudulent . |
| 4 | It is argued that although cattle stealing was affected by administrative arrangements , particularly in the twentieth century , it was more sensitive to economic influences , especially changes in land use brought on by the expansion of plantations . |
| 5 | G. S. Saxton thought that cattle stealing was ‘ indulged in as pure mischief , as naughty boys used to wrench off knockers … . the idea being ‘ Here is our enemy 's bull , let us eat it' ’ . ' |
| 6 | In 1829 the Supreme Court judges wrote that cattle stealing was ‘ very common ’ . |
| 7 | Their replies indicated that cattle stealing was more common in the Low Country and Intermediate areas than in the Interior region . |
| 8 | Accounts from the 1840s and 1850s show that cattle stealing was thought by the authorities to be a serious problem in many areas . |
| 9 | This social profile indicates that cattle stealing was not primarily a crime of the depressed classes . |
| 10 | The fact that mistakes happened was irrelevant . |
| 11 | The hours devoted to farm work by the part-time farmers was fairly high and it was in these predominantly part-time farm areas that the discrepancy between hours required and hours worked was highest . |
| 12 | In the 1990 field season , the range of elements and anions determined was increased , in collaboration with BGS hydrogeochemists in Wallingford , with the inclusion of arsenic , chloride and nitrite , and a selection of minor and trace elements determined by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry . |
| 13 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 14 | The tally of religious paintings and statues lost was immense . |
| 15 | One conclusion to emerge from a recent conference at which the Italians and Egyptians met was that the existing Cairo Egyptian Museum should be maintained . |
| 16 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 17 | He arranged the pictures used in advertising into some fifty categories and found that whilst a representation of men and women embracing was most common there were no representatives at all of people at work . |
| 18 | What Thick As Thieves offered was a chance to chart La Frenais and Clements 's progress against their current offering Old Boy Network ( ITV Sunday evening ) . |