Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [was/were] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset , my criterion was that each house should be unadulterated and purely of its time . |
| 2 | My understanding was that any provision made in accordance with I twelve did not count towards I five |
| 3 | My view was that most people would prefer a pension that was theirs by right rather than being dependent on the decisions of government . |
| 4 | Their response was that this method had greatly augmented their income . |
| 5 | The Board of Review considered that the issue for their decision was whether certain profits accruing to the taxpayer from films and programmes exhibited by its customers outside Hong Kong were exigible to profits tax . |
| 6 | Watsons actually recommended what should happen with both the surpluses and their recommendation was that both businesses should take a contribution holiday for the next three , five and maybe even be ten years in the Post Office , depending how investments go erm an- and there was no discussion erm between or negotiation between anybody . |
| 7 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 8 | The crux of his reasoning was that British connections with the Commonwealth , with European states outside the EEC , and with the United States would transform a cohesive European community into a larger and looser Atlantic community under American control . |
| 9 | His conclusion was that these groups could be turned into productive forces by giving the employees a sense of being appreciated . |
| 10 | His conclusion was that four-point alignment was strong evidence of design rather than accident . |
| 11 | One of the things he learned from his wife was that all animals love sweet things . |
| 12 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 13 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 14 | The conventional view of his time was that all species were immutable and that each had been individually and separately created by God . |
| 15 | well er , I 'm sorry to interrupt you , I 'm sorry I do apologise , perhaps it 's my tooth , it 's making me even more testier than usual , erm , I , I thought your case was that these agreements were void |
| 16 | Our argument was that British Telecom and the other operators should be negotiating with the regulator to make sure that the necessary infrastructure commitments are met . |
| 17 | Whilst they provided material for a case study , our impression was that these organisations were exceptions — firms facing particular problems . |