Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Machiavelli problem would be instantly recognisable to hordes of would-be and once-were government officials in today 's world : ‘ policy intellectuals ’ , as Americans call them . |
| 2 | They were reactions against what was now regarded as an old-fashioned evolutionism . |
| 3 | Meanwhile there were tragedies in the chimp colony . |
| 4 | Micky Banks 's death and Alex Household 's disappearance were tragedies , but at least they had removed possible rivals for Valerie 's daughter 's affections . |
| 5 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 6 | Net earnings per share rose 25% to $0.10 in the quarter and were $0.14 in the half . |
| 7 | ‘ So , apparently , were Lawton , Bryce and Magee . ’ |
| 8 | They were consules , men chosen for the protection of the common weal , men of ancient Roman gravitas and auctoritas . |
| 9 | The ANC at that time had very close links to the African Mine Workers ' Union , the largest group of whose members were Bemba , but which included members of tribes from all over Zambia , as well as from Tanganyika and Nyasaland . |
| 10 | What make of car were Imps and Huskies ? |
| 11 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 12 | Hyperbole , falsehood , fiction , fib were pebbles tossed |
| 13 | The overall cost is difficult to work out : the main purchases were sundries — roofing felt , bolts , brackets , nails — plus the hire of a circular saw . |
| 14 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 15 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 16 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 17 | Industry became more mechanized , improvements took place in agricultural production techniques , and there were improvements in transport and in the organization of trade and banking . |
| 18 | While there were improvements in standard in a number of areas , Britain 's control emphasised the distance between rulers and ruled . |
| 19 | ‘ They were improvements designed to make the building 100pc perfect , but which we could take out to cut the £4.5m estimate back and still maintain safety , ’ said Mr Buxton . |
| 20 | But they were climbers . |
| 21 | But they were climbers , and they had made it . |
| 22 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 23 | And furthermore , 15 other energetic male participants were accessories before the fact . |
| 24 | Their legacy from the poor law was a stock of homes , for the elderly and disabled , that were ex-workhouses . |
| 25 | Estimates for ODA from other sources for 1988 were $4,234 million from the Soviet Union and $501 million from the rest of Eastern Europe , $2,098 million from Saudi Arabia ( 2.7 per cent of its GNP ) and $109 million from other Arab countries , and $351 million from less developed country donors . |
| 26 | Some crimes were acts of protest , but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal . |
| 27 | The student 's willingness , however , to involve John and to try and behave fairly towards him were acts which potentially respected both his rationality and his vulnerability . |
| 28 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 29 | For the Christian , as we have seen , wars were acts of pacification since they were fought to secure peace which depended upon justice . |
| 30 | To be the first over the wall of a castle or town which was being stormed ; to be encamped close to the wall of a besieged city and thus within range of missiles fired from its walls , these were acts which merited honour and respect . |