Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? |
| 2 | — where ‘ Trinacria ’ , the ancient Greek name for Sicily , is related to the legend of how Vulcan the divine smith , somewhere in the island , solved the problem of perpetual motion , by a wheel with three dogleg spokes , its never ceasing to roll recalling the wheel that was the hellish and interminable torment of Ixion . |
| 3 | Returning to Reine that afternoon , I caught sight of Jean-Claude slipping into the dark urban cleft that was the rue de Sèvres , and I noticed that I felt nothing , neither curi-osity nor apprehension . |
| 4 | It was the fact of the experiment that was the important independent variable , not the ones that Mayo was working with . |
| 5 | Another explosion in the white-hot volcano that was the Drum sent a whole marble mantlepiece scything overhead . |
| 6 | But he did look up ; those eyes that were the colour of a summer sea had moved slowly over her before returning to her face . |
| 7 | Here , in the Rose & Thistle Inn , in this prosperous trading-post that was the last port-of-call for traffic from Sydney , Mrs Gould 's journal reports a return to the familiar routine : ‘ employed all day making drawings ’ ( 24 September ) ; ‘ drawing all day ’ ; ‘ drew all day ’ ; while her labours were relieved by the occasional walk with her husband in the cool air of the early morning or evening : |
| 8 | This was the name that Hitler himself gave to a weekend of murder that was the culmination of a power struggle within the Nazi Party . |
| 9 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 10 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |
| 11 | The British infantry , firing a heavier bullet — 16 to the pound against the French 24 — than their enemies , and trained to do so rapidly , by platoons instead of in cumbrous ranks , now achieved a mastery of the battlefield that was the envy of continental commanders . |
| 12 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 13 | In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith . |
| 14 | The plane rose , banked again and he circled the vast complex that was the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 15 | He came to that which was his own , that 's in other words that was the Jews was n't it ? |
| 16 | Only the roof of the Commandant 's hut was visible over the high wooden fence that was the boundary of the Factory compound , but the fire was high and the smoke higher . |
| 17 | Aranyos , already up and about , pointed across the wasteland to the massive orgy of light that was the French line . |
| 18 | The white light that was the pain in his head receded as something cool was pressed to it . |
| 19 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 20 | And more people are now ineligible for legal aid than was the case a decade ago . |
| 21 | I think Porky pig that was the first one I saw , that 's always good |
| 22 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 23 | That was just the opposite of Roux 's result and was the first clear demonstration of the process known as regulation : the ability of the embryo to develop normally even when some portions are removed or rearranged . |
| 24 | Jumbo Van Rennen , who now worked in the A&R department and was the house authority on reggae , drew up a list of all the performers in Jamaica worth auditioning or signing , and in February 1978 a small contingent from Virgin , led by Branson , flew out to Kingston . |
| 25 | It has three different heads and was the most efficient , ’ she says . |
| 26 | In performing so well , BRC beat by 16 seconds Dublin University who have won at Erne and Galweay Heads and were the second Irish crew at Laganside Head . |
| 27 | Impetuously he wrote a declaration , which was widely circulated , denying the rumour and asserting that he was ready to prove that the Prayer Book of Edward VI conformed to the commandments of Christ and the practice of the Apostles , whereas the Mass was contrary to that practice and was the work of Satan . |
| 28 | This policy known as the ‘ empty chair ’ , lasted for six months and was the EEC 's greatest-ever crisis . |
| 29 | I was born in Nottinghamshire and was the third of five sons . |
| 30 | Crudely expressed , corruption was of the political essence and was the practical counterpoint to the constitutional theory of balance . |