Example sentences of "to [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the dissidents objected to was a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 2 | Maybe the special school he went to was a kind of hospital . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 4 | Nor was it of much use to youth workers , as what it boiled down to was a couple of blocking techniques , a punch and a bite : a self-appointed , self-defence expert showing off . |
| 5 | The first place they sent us to was a parish in the East End . |
| 6 | A young kangaroo would stand little chance of staying on board its mother as she bounded over the land if all it had to cling to was a nipple . |
| 7 | The first room he came to was a kind of study , equipped with telephones , typewriters , and copying machines . |
| 8 | Erm there 's a , a , one of the other things on any other business that I was just gon na come to was a Thematic Survey , that is being carried out nationally . |
| 9 | She was fed up , she was hungry , and now she would have to confront a horde of troublesome workmen lounging about the house , banging nails , screwing screws and making ribald comments when what she had thought she was escaping to was a slice of peace and solitude . |
| 10 | She had passed him once or twice , fleetingly , in the corridor , when all he had subjected her to was a brief ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 11 | What it boiled down to was a question of priorities . |
| 12 | And ma'am , just on a brief note of clarification , the report which has been referred to was a report prepared by the County Planning Officer , endorsed and I think was prepared in his name and was presented t to a working party of Greater York authorities . |