Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 2 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 3 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 4 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 5 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 6 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 7 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 8 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 9 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 10 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 11 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |