Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact on the Germans was immediate ; from this moment , said the Reichs Archives , ‘ began the flanking fire on the ravines and roads north of Douaumont that was to cause us such severe casualties . ’ |
| 2 | Vatican II was to prove them correct . |
| 3 | Was it Rabbi Moishe 's imminent departure to Palestine that was making him more withdrawn than usual ? |
| 4 | While the Second Crusade was dragging on , Richard 's father Henry II was consolidating his dynastic empire and England was in a state of civil war — which explains why no English king had yet appeared personally in the crusades . |
| 5 | It was her perceptions of her kingdom which differed so crucially both from those of earlier kings of Scotland ( and , indeed , of her son James VI , who as James I was to infuriate his English subjects by his insistent interest in Scotland , and by his belief that his importance lay not in being king of England but in being a leading European monarch ) , and from those of her subjects . |