Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soccer fans were its contribution to the global tradition of random violence . |
| 2 | The functionalist public lawyers of the interwar years were our equivalent of the American legal realists . |
| 3 | Working there was my exit from the straight world . |
| 4 | Looking back , that square was my gateway to the real world — and the gate could only work one way . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Gone was my loathing of the Inland Revenue , VAT , all forms of Government , the Law and the Establishment . |
| 7 | It was my contribution to The Roman Villa in Britaini and optimistically entitled ‘ The Future of Villa Studies ’ . |
| 8 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 9 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 12 | The six counties are ‘ Carson Country ’ because Edward Carson was their champion in the crucial early years . |
| 13 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 14 | An important reason for this was their eschewal of the conventional ‘ straight ’ man , two-dimensional and irritable . |
| 15 | Although the quality of diamonds which most immediately strikes the modern imagination is their capacity to command attention as symbols of majesty or affluence by reason of their fire and lustre , it was their quality as the hardest substance on earth that first engaged attention . |
| 16 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
| 17 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 18 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 19 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 20 | According to Pacepa , it was her obsession with the scurrilous anonymous letters sent to RFE that led to the establishment of the national handwriting archive , as well as the decree requiring all typewriters to be registered with the authorities and a regular sample of the typeface to be provided . |
| 21 | Although only the vestiges of her original Pomfret Lodge lie behind this Regency update , it was her obsession with the Gothic that lingered on and produced this pale pink confection . |
| 22 | But what was most interesting was her praise of the good characters . |
| 23 | Another vital boost to Dawn 's confidence and motivation was her introduction to the British ‘ Les Autres Sports ’ , an organization which encouraged sports competitions for people with disabilities . |
| 24 | The other central feature of this early sexology was its stress on the direct relation between mind and body . |
| 25 | The main problem bedevilling the SDP , though , was its relationship with the old Liberal Party led by David Steel . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most strongly opposed of all the government 's innovations was its challenge to the National Health Service in February 1989 . |
| 27 | The second defect of the Treaty was its humiliation of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The role of Australia in all this is particularly important , as was its role in the successful campaign eventually to get a moratorium . |
| 30 | The only remaining impediment to the implementation of the deal was its approval by the Belauan population of approximately 15,000 , spread between the territory 's eight inhabited islands and Guam , Saipan , Hawaii and the USA . |