Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 2 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 3 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 4 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 5 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 6 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 7 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 8 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 9 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 10 | Harry denied in his letters that this fact was influencing him in any way . |
| 11 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 12 | Okay , is n't it interesting , is n't depressing , that absolutely none of these things was taught you at school , except possibly the sport ? |
| 13 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 14 | ( It is surprising to read in the Veterinarian of 1841 an article on the diseases of cats , and still more surprising to see the statement in the issue of 1850 that many practitioners were restricting themselves to dog practice ) . |
| 15 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 16 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 17 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 18 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 19 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 20 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 21 | Er and the Italians at that time were producing them under licence from . |
| 22 | But at that time , the early 1970s , most governments were having none of it ; migrants , hawkers and barefoot business meant mess and that was that . |
| 23 | Most players were bogeying it on Saturday and Sunday . |