Example sentences of "are [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the South Africans are were last night understood to be unhappy that only the English anthem is to be played , but it was felt better not to cause more controversy in the light of Thursday 's threat by the African National Congress to call a halt to future tours . |
| 2 | The small bottle once again is is the attractiveness of the bottle and we 've found that to be very attractive and people are were very willing to pay a premium price for something like that cos as Thomas said people are buying those bottles to keep them erm initially . |
| 3 | The West Germans , known as ‘ Westies ’ , treat the ‘ Easties ’ as if we are were illiterate idiots . |
| 4 | we 've got a couple of fruit and veg and that , but we are were looking |
| 5 | In example 2 the intended word dog was the second candidate word , and in example 3 the intended word are was the top candidate , actually rated higher than the ‘ correct ’ word arc . |
| 6 | The one case where another string was allowable is where the intended word are was recognised as ore . |
| 7 | Just how accurate they are was demonstrated when some birds were kept under a stationary artificial " sun " . |
| 8 | There you are was we have it again now . |
| 9 | And as I got in here I saw that one of the men sitting just where you are was Hal MacQuillan . |