Example sentences of "[vb past] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject proposed was The Problem of Pain . |
| 2 | What Ceauşescu proposed was the ‘ expansion of the socialist farming system to encompass all agriculture … ’ |
| 3 | Alexei knelt was the middle of the morning , and the red ball of the sun was already high in the awful blue of the sky . |
| 4 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 5 | To the left as you entered was the copper over which hung a galvanised tub used not only on wash days but also for personal baths . |
| 6 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 7 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |
| 8 | The Modigliani that Germaine described was the man that so many women admired : fascinating , intelligent , with beautiful manners . |
| 9 | Among the Italian maiolica ceramics analysed was the pharmacy jar of Figure 6.4 , which is one of a number in the same style . |
| 10 | The amount charged was the expense incurred by the body corporate ‘ in or in connection with the provision ’ of the benefit in kind . |
| 11 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ‘ , Darling Harbour . |
| 12 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |
| 13 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ’ , Darling Harbour . |
| 14 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 15 | One of the motives mentioned was the actual and expected levels of interest rates . |
| 16 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 18 | One substance used was the sex pheromone excreted in the urine of the boar . |
| 19 | The microscope used was the ISI60A at the British Museum ( Natural History ) , which is fitted with an environmental chamber . |
| 20 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 21 | No see the material all people used was the nightdress nightdress material . |
| 22 | When normality for either group was not reasonable the corresponding test used was the Mann-Whitney , although this assumed that the shapes of the two underlying distributions ( for regulated and random ) were identical but possibly shifted in terms of the median . |
| 23 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 24 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 25 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 26 | The most highly-centralized and coherent terrorist organization they created was the ‘ People 's Will ’ formed in 1879 . |
| 27 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 28 | On investigation all the shepherd found was the remnants of a hare 's carcase . |
| 29 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 30 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |