Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 2 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 3 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 4 | The six counties are ‘ Carson Country ’ because Edward Carson was their champion in the crucial early years . |
| 5 | The only setback for the LDP was its defeat in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo where the party had withdrawn support from its veteran incumbent governor , Shunichi Suzuki , in favour of a candidate supported by the DSP and Komeito . |
| 6 | The role of Australia in all this is particularly important , as was its role in the successful campaign eventually to get a moratorium . |
| 7 | What it did do , however , was to herald the potential use of sex crime allied to other explicitly sexual gossip , photographs of topless models and so on to become close to a ‘ soft porn package ’ which was its strategy in the ensuing circulation warfare . |
| 8 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
| 9 | It is therefore curious that although the author 's original impetus for writing was his involvement in the controversial treatment of recurrent spontaneous miscarriage by immunotherapy , he has largely ignored the topical clinical arena . |
| 10 | 3 What was his score in the 4th match ? |
| 11 | Yes but it was our mistake in the first place . |
| 12 | Oh yeah British Legion , was your father in the British Legion ? |
| 13 | And what exactly was your job in the splitting shop then ? |