Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angola wants Mr Savimbi to go into voluntary exile while elections are held , perhaps to return later , but his supporters say there was no such agreement . |
| 2 | Paul Stephens says it was no more than New Zealand 's third string side with the best 30 on tour ( though Turner and Cooper played against the World XV and Seymour and Rush were picked to tour South Africa ) . |
| 3 | His enormous vitality energised what was a less than satisfying piece . |
| 4 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 5 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 7 | DISGRACED David Mellor learned there was no such thing as a freebie as he was finally prised from his Cabinet seat last night . |
| 8 | The problem Marx set himself was the same as that which other social scientists tried to confront : the nature and mechanics of the transition from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society and its specific modes of operation and tendencies of future development . |
| 9 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 10 | The better you rehearse , the less you have to do as you go along , and once the tour started there were no more rehearsals . |
| 11 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 12 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 13 | ‘ An ideal marriage , ’ he replied , his tone saying there was no such thing . |