Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 2 | Melancia , who resigned after being served with a summons in connection with the alleged bribery , denied all charges of corruption and maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 3 | I also had fierce battles with Peter Rees , while Peter 's successor , John MacGregor , maintained that I was the only minister who almost walked out of one of his ‘ bilaterals ’ . |
| 4 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 5 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 6 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 7 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 8 | I realized that they were the two lights of a coach . |
| 9 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 10 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 11 | The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear . |
| 12 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 13 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 14 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 15 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 16 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 17 | I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley . |
| 18 | On Feb. 4 Hor Nam Hong announced that it was the last extension of the Assembly 's mandate , and that elections would be held in 1992 with or without a political settlement . |
| 19 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 20 | THE PLUTONIUM knot unravelled a shank more at the Sizewell inquiry last week when the Department of Energy revealed that it is the reluctant owner of more than 80 kg of the material — some of which does not yet exist . |
| 21 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 22 | The former ruling party argued that it was the only party able to maintain " peace and stability " , while the MMD was untried and tribalistic . |
| 23 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 24 | The King , however , undeterred by this , told the Prime Minister that he believed that he was the only person who could carry the country through' . |
| 25 | Although his plans for political and economic reform had yet to be clarified , supporters of Ben Bella believed that he was the only politician capable of ending the social polarization caused by FLN economic policies and the growing appeal of Islamic fundamentalism , as demonstrated in June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 26 | He believed that he was the last hostage left . |
| 27 | There were a number of rabbits in the net but I never believed that it was the sheer weight of the catch that was responsible . |
| 28 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 29 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 30 | And a third reiterated that it is the poor who come into contact with Social Services Departments , while : |