Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the older Michael mostly remembered about this were the games — croquet in which the parents joined the children , tennis , a sort of squash with his brother hitting a tennis ball against a veranda wall , expeditions up the river through the Backs and then up to the village of Grantchester . |
| 2 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 3 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 4 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 5 | Exceptions to this were the case of the Chilean urban poor before and during the Allende period and Peruvian collective action during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 7 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 8 | If this were the case , it would follow that the meme for celibacy could have greater survival value than the meme for marriage . |
| 9 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 10 | The validity of this intuition awaits the report of the experiment , but if this were the case , what foundation could it have ? |
| 11 | yet somehow the whole thing proceeds as though all this were the most natural thing in the world . |
| 12 | If this were the case , would it not be best to tackle them in terms of the theory of games ? |
| 13 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 14 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 15 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
| 16 | The broad reasons for this were the difficulties in adopting his ontology of social being and knowledge and his espousal of ‘ relationism ’ . |
| 17 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 18 | He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal . |
| 19 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 20 | In short , consideration does not ensure the seriousness of a promise , and if this were the aim of the doctrine , it would surely be more straightforward to devise an explicit test of seriousness . |
| 21 | If this were the case , the council must have been rapidly undeceived . |
| 22 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 23 | But if this were the case , then the fleas had taken a terrible revenge for the loss of their erstwhile companion through history , their life-support system . |
| 24 | Historical subjects such as this were the most critically-acclaimed in the academies and official exhibitions of the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 25 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 26 | There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester . |
| 27 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 28 | The symbols of this were the crushing of the demands for equal rights to enfranchisement for the working classes . |
| 29 | If this were the end of the story then there would be large equator to pole temperature differences in the observed troposphere . |
| 30 | The immediate consequences of this were the disarming of eight battalions , some eight thousand men , and the subsequent arrest on charges of mutiny of between 50 to 60 of the leading mutineers . |