Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 2 | If further proof were needed it is the formation of the joint Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co itself . |
| 3 | ‘ If a gentleman of education , without legal training , were asked what is the meaning of a ‘ trust for charitable purposes ’ I think he would most probably reply ‘ That sounds like a legal phrase . |
| 4 | Bavarian reports spoke of ‘ paralysing horror ’ at the news , and-with typical exaggeration — of a mood comparable to that of 1917 , while others commented that workers were thinking it was the beginning of the end of the Party and the Third Reich , and that rumours were abroad about disturbances in Munich . |
| 5 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 6 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 7 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 8 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 9 | Georgia Griffiths ' drugs charges attracted national attention when it was revealed she was the daughter of a court recorder … and the crown court case had to be moved to Birmingham because the Oxford judge knew her father . |
| 10 | As the external surface of the field collided with the elements of space , an explosive force was generated which was the equivalent of that produced by an ion bomb . |
| 11 | The proper approach was to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits , and where those operations took place . |
| 12 | ‘ I was thinking what 's the point you lying in the sun if you swathe yourself up like a woman in purdah . |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking she 's the sort who encourages crime . |
| 14 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |