Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 2 | It was just Beethoven 's sense of what was going on outside triumphing over our own . |
| 3 | The abbey was plundered and pillaged , its treasures looted , its roofs pulled off , and what was once man 's homage to God became a nesting place for foxes , ravens and kites . |
| 4 | The Ironbridge Gorge Museum is an extensive open-air museum embracing the buildings and industrial remains of the former cradle of the Industrial Revolution , centred on Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) , now part of the new town named after the great civil engineer Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) who was once Shropshire 's Surveyor of Public Works . |
| 5 | This was probably West 's advice after returning from Furness . |
| 6 | It was probably Charlotte 's frown of puzzlement that prompted her to add : ‘ Emerson 's wife . ’ |
| 7 | But , more than anybody , Powell recognised that whatever the business opportunities Event presented , it was also Branson 's way of exorcising the journalistic instincts — the excitement of chasing stories and airing issues — which had been thwarted by the failure of Student . |
| 8 | Ronnie was also Palace 's captain for that promotion season . |
| 9 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |
| 10 | But it was really Ben 's story from beginning to end . |
| 11 | Part of its inspiration was indeed Haynes 's outlet in Edinburgh , and Miles was the man left minding the store . |
| 12 | It was then Chamberlain 's turn to be aghast . |
| 13 | Former Panamanian diplomat Ricardo Bilonick , a crucial witness who was allegedly Noriega 's go-between with Colombia 's Medellín drugs cartel , and who was arrested only two weeks before the trial began , pleaded guilty to a relatively minor racketeering charge on Aug. 29 without having to face more serious drug-trafficking charges . |
| 14 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 15 | It was definitely Tim 's voice on the yacht that night . ’ |