Example sentences of "[was/were] the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best marriages of all were the made marriages , ’ he said authoritatively . |
| 2 | The design of their various types of sledge , and their use of deer teams was highly sophisticated , but their reindeer were never ridden , nor were the does milked . |
| 3 | More important were the leudes of a king . |
| 4 | Ras Tafari 's army came in and he received a great ovation ; in his army were the captured guns and chiefs . |
| 5 | The two richest foundations were the sees of Canterbury and Winchester , the former with a revenue of about £1,750 , the latter with over £1,000 . |
| 6 | Speakers from only two organisations gave evidence to support the airfield 's retention for flying : these were the Save West Malling Airfield Action Group ( SWAG ) and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association ( AOPA ) . |
| 7 | This could be a formidable task in a society where even widely travelled soldiers firmly believed that Thomas Cook 's wagon-lits were the spearheads of the Third International since the latter word could be read in Cyrillic on the side of carriages . |
| 8 | The board over the door proclaimed that it was The Clutching Hand . |
| 9 | It was the no-abort , go at any cost signal . |
| 10 | Yes , but that was the get , |
| 11 | One of the few developments was the piloting in 1983 of the Royal Society of Arts certificate in the teaching of community languages which was later developed into a diploma . |
| 12 | The mood of the acoustic album Nebraska was bleak , lowering , but even here there was the sustaining immensity of the continent and the possibility of heading off and starting over ( no such promise on this grim little rock , of course ) . |
| 13 | His face had lost its boyish roundness , and there was the debated moustache — I had always said I did n't fancy him with one — quite splendid , and at once my prejudice vanished . |
| 14 | Great was the slaying that day , and merry was the feasting afterwards . |
| 15 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 16 | The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change . |
| 17 | And on the end of the erm stock there was the to take the kick do you see . |
| 18 | But where was the resolve a year ago , and where will it be a year from now to address fundamental inequalities that date back to slavery ? |
| 19 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 20 | And on the windows was the had all been serviced . |
| 21 | This engineering work was the laying in of two cross-overs , one at Wolverton and one just North of Bletchley . |
| 22 | what does , what was the start of that ? , the commencement , benefit commencement date , sixth of April nineteen eighty eight , that was the contracting out |
| 23 | ( Christian belief was the forming influence of the law of equity which , in part , has to do with those legal ‘ persons ’ unable to help themselves . ) |
| 24 | Having played all the courses in the area regularly , I must point out that if Mr Ward feels that Stranraer is less of a challenge than Portpatrick he should have realised that the 18 holes to the right of the clubhouse was the putting green , not the course ! |
| 25 | Another trend starting to make its presence felt was the putting out to tender of insolvency appointments , initiated by the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 26 | It should have been a signal to stop but was the accelerate signal . |
| 27 | She was the captured bird again , wings folded in acceptance . |
| 28 | And such was the liking the company felt for Colley the Mason that they put their fingers in their ears and turned away from the door , and stared straight ahead at the altar . |
| 29 | Tellingly enough , the only track on there with real drumming was the acknowledge classic ‘ The Third Time We Opened The Capsule ’ , a song which literally soars above the rest and spits . |
| 30 | It was the spearhead of the contest between King Henry II and his archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Becket . |