Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point was that she — and the killer-were the only people who knew Puddephat had been to the flat at all . |
| 2 | At last they-were the only ones left , except for Brown Owl , who stayed with them . |
| 3 | All Mr Handford heard , however , were the eerie sounds which seemed to be a faint moaning and chuckling coming from the nearby wood . |
| 4 | Certainly then in early modern England the ways of conceptualizing sexuality and sexual deviance were fundamentally different from ours , as were the perceived relations between sexuality and subjectivity . |
| 5 | The long-term reasons were the perceived weaknesses of the existing structure of local government in relation to socio-economic geography , size of authorities , and complex division of powers . |
| 6 | The results were beneficent , but less well handled were the reverse migration procedures ordered by Pomgol on 15 March 1922 . |
| 7 | All three were the predestined victims of capitalism , though , as we have seen , neither the peasantry nor the country-based social hierarchy which rested on its backs were in any immediate danger of collapse . |
| 8 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 9 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 10 | These were the critical years , but it is arguable that this was the critical place . |
| 11 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 12 | But the notion that these raw recruits were the critical ingredient is open to doubt . |
| 13 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 14 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 15 | Those were the dangerous moments . |
| 16 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 17 | Outside were the familiar roofs and flats , the chimneys and aerials . |
| 18 | How seriously ill were the thirty eight ? |
| 19 | Then there were the hot , spiced , yeast buns with their shine of sugar on top . |
| 20 | The earliest risers over a frostbound Swindon yesterday , were the hot air balloonists . |
| 21 | But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ? |
| 22 | And there , across a field filled with long grass and butterflies , were the Syrian tanks . |
| 23 | Mr Jiri Dienstbier , the Forum spokesman , responded coolly to the appointment of the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , and said that were the Communist Mr Calfa to remain in office the president would have to be a non-Communist . |
| 24 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 25 | The attacks , directed at Palestinian positions around the southern port of Sidon , were the heaviest carried out by Israel since its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 . |
| 26 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 27 | Students were the final element to join the new cafe society . |
| 28 | The pressures of rising rent and the problem of filling a large shop with goods of high quality were the final straws . |
| 29 | Further disputes over pitch-covering and residential qualifications were the final nails in the coffin of Fender 's captaincy aspirations . |
| 30 | Morellet , Monet as experienced in his studio at Giverny , and Le Courbusier discovered at Marseille were the final French enthusiasms of Ellsworth Kelly . |