Example sentences of "[vb base] that [pron] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats write to The Scotsman and say that they were the first to back the consortium . |
| 2 | The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war . |
| 3 | We pause on the stairs and although we left of our own accord , pulled our coat from under the couple entwined on the bed , we already sense that it was the wrong decision , that there was a hidden hand pushing us out , wanting to exclude us . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it was the last Labour Government who introduced a value added tax of 25 per cent . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
| 6 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 7 | We know that he was the archetypal loyal Thatcherite Back Bencher in the Second Reading debate four years ago . |
| 8 | Although the deposed Communist Party leader , Mr Egon Krenz , has been credited with countermanding orders to issue live ammunition to troops standing by to deal with the Leipzig demonstrations , other sources indicate that it was the military district commander who stepped in to avoid bloodshed . |
| 9 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 10 | Said Prof Sunderland : ‘ We believe that it was the international reputation of these departments , together with the strength and imaginative nature of the particular proposals that ensured that Bangor did so well . ’ |
| 11 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 12 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 13 | I admit it freely , and I admit that you were the first to make the diagnosis . ’ |