Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were strange with me the last days and I was being so awful . |
| 2 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 3 | He was interested in who the local people wanted , whether they considered that a chap would fit in with the university or college , whether he 'd be acceptable to his colleagues . |
| 4 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 5 | Many Bolsheviks saw in all this the realisation of their aims as communists , but the reality was far from what the founding fathers of Marxian socialism had envisaged as being communism or socialism . |