Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wyn-rajathuk shook the pouch , then banged it on the ground , then struck it against his shoulders ; he chanted softly as he made the rhythmic movements , and the words were nonsense words . |
| 2 | His opening words were Lumen Christi Ecclesia Christi ( The Church of Christ is the Light of Christ ) . |
| 3 | These compounds were histamine analogues and cimetidine , developed by Nobel laureate Sir James Black , was the first clinically successful one . |
| 4 | All but two of the jurors attending the courts in 1522 featured in the muster book , while seven of the ten essoins were absentee tenants . |
| 5 | Back in the early '60s , that 's how Shelby contrived it , and although the majority of Cobras were road cars , that does n't alter the fact that they 're all racers under the skin . |
| 6 | Nearest the pin prizewinners were Alan Nelson ( 3rd ) , Peter Fisher ( 11th ) and Peter Briggs ( 16th ) . |
| 7 | His clients were sports stars like jockey Pat Eddery and boxer Lennox Lewis . |
| 8 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 9 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 10 | By the time Mains and company had twirled their long knives , the only long-service survivors were Terry Wright , John Kirwan and Grant Fox in the backs , and Michael Jones , Mike Brewer , Zinzan Brooke , Ian Jones , Steve McDowell , Loe and Fitzpatrick in the forwards . |
| 11 | Adidas managed to keep their cool while all about them were losing theirs because their trainers were playground staples and their kit designs were head and shoulders above the rest . |
| 12 | Other contenders were Stephen Gill , for Wordsworth : A Life ( Oxford ) , and William St Clair for The Godwins and the Shelleys ( Faber ) . |
| 13 | Hot on his heels were folk duo Tascam , whose rousing medley had the crowd roaring in appreciation . |
| 14 | Close on their heels were Jane Passingham/Graham White of Treloar , just two points adrift , having lost just two games 15–14 . |
| 15 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 16 | Among his recruits were John Randall and Harry Boot . |
| 17 | Primroses were Mr Disraeli 's favourite flower , you know . ’ |
| 18 | These fragments were Klenow end-labelled and isolated as before to produce two groups of three probes with 140k binding sites in circularly permuted positions with respect to their ends . |
| 19 | Bill Frisell 's earliest influences were Jim Hall , Wes Montgomery and Jimi Hendrix , and in his own playing he combines the various aspects of their styles to form an amalgam of jazz finesse , rock explosiveness and avant-garde experimentation . |
| 20 | Dylan 's earliest musical influences were country music ( the two Hanks , Snow and Williams ) and rock 'n' roll ( while still at school he had an ambition to join Little Richard 's band ) . |
| 21 | The principal " devil " parties were Chart Thai and Chart Patthana . |
| 22 | The teenagers were Karen Reilly ( 18 ) , of Jasmine Walk , Twinbrook , and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) , of Cresslough Park , Lenadoon . |
| 23 | It soared to the top of the pop charts in early 1956 and for a while Frankie And The Teenagers were household names . |
| 24 | The nine authors were Eduard Shevardnadze , Aleksandr Yakovlev , the economists Nikolai Petrakov and Stanislas Shatalin , Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak , mayors of Moscow and Leningrad respectively , Arkady Volsky , president of the Scientific-Industrial Union , and the Prime Minister and Vice-President of the RSFSR , Ivan Silayev and Col. Aleksandr Rutskoi . |
| 25 | It was idealistic and austere ; its classic authors were George Orwell , who died in January 1950 , and his friend Arthur Koestler ; its spirit was resolutely decent and fiercely anti-totalitarian , its chosen mode a polemical prose that lost nothing of its edge by being cast , at times , into argumentative fictions like Animal Farm ( 1945 ) , though its true forte was the article ; and its best poet , Dylan Thomas , was manifestly a survivor from an earlier age . |
| 26 | Two of the cars were police cars , marked Police and with blue lamps . |
| 27 | Two more recent bogus defectors were Oleg Bitov and Vitali Yurchenko . |
| 28 | It would be useful to have a way of determining the fair sterling-dollar exchange rate independently of knowing whether these other relationships were equilibrium ones . |
| 29 | Referees were district commissioner David Harvey , Alan Pritchard and Bob Rodwell . |
| 30 | Referees were Tim Giles — who organised the event — and Mark Appleton . |