Example sentences of "were the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lecture periods could be used for outside visitors , or for specific and relevant accounts by teachers who did not normally participate in the work ; examples were the playing of records of part of Haydn 's Creation with explanation and commentary , by a teacher made specially available , and a talk on Red Indian tribes by a visitor from a local museum , together with overhead transparencies , slides and objects from the museum collection . |
| 2 | Some fundamental steps in the constitutional development of the country were the Bill of Rights 1689 which limited the power of the monarch to rule by virtue of the royal prerogative and the Act of Settlement 1700 which further strengthened the power of Parliament and provided for the succession to the English throne . |
| 3 | The principal activities of the Association during the year were the promotion of standards in the practice of good catering and accomodation management , and the advancement of education and training in the hotel catering and institutional management industry . |
| 4 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 5 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 6 | On her feet were the kind of shoes you do n't find in shoe shops — heavy , black , surgical things . |
| 7 | But I was n't sure they were the kind of entities that come from other planets . |
| 8 | What were the kind of conditions of the people who w who went back in , did they go in bec because of they had , erm say large families or something like that and they had difficulty trying to make ends meet ? |
| 9 | They were the kind of difficulties he thrived on . |
| 10 | These were the kind of difficulties facing Helen Hallworth when she and her three teenage children moved from a large , elegant house into a smaller country cottage in a pretty village near York . |
| 11 | Maybe — but these were the kind of thoughts that kept Henry awake sometimes at four in the morning , longing for the dawn . |
| 12 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 13 | These were the kind of questions they never gave you in catechism . |
| 14 | And what were y What were the kind of jobs that you were expected to do then ? |
| 15 | Well I mean these were the kind of jobs that were n't replaceable were n't they really ? |
| 16 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 17 | On odd nights that would worry me but in time I realised they were the kind of neighbours who never caused a disturbance . |
| 18 | Other big cities in the world were the subject of plans , often decentralist in nature , of which Thomas Adams 's Regional plan of New York was a celebrated example , issued in two volumes ( 1929 and 1931 ) and backed by eight subject reports . |
| 19 | The two main reforms announced by Chidambaram were the withdrawal of subsidies on exports and the linking of foreign-exchange allocations for imports to export sales . |
| 20 | Since the gods were the measure of things , it was a warning against presumption and a call to the virtue of temperance . |
| 21 | Why were the majority of clubs not asked for their thoughts on the changes ? |
| 22 | The two former East Germans were the butt of jokes when they entered the tiny 594cc car in one of the toughest tests for both man and machine . |
| 23 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 24 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 25 | The main issues before the Appeal Court were the authenticity of confessions said to have been made by the defendants while under detention , and the conduct of the police . |
| 26 | Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks |
| 27 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 28 | His principal allies were the Society of Friends , the Unitarian Church and Picture Post , the popular weekly magazine which published a series of articles on the Czech crisis . |
| 29 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 30 | And these were the type of conditions that our members worked in , whilst at the same time the management provided plastic roofing you know , but it was n't efficient and it was cold and bitterly cold if I might say so erm for a long period . |