Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this was what a birthday party was like . |
| 2 | No one in Parliament objected : the assumption seemed to be that this was what a publicly owned radio service ought to do . |
| 3 | This was what a boost to when we won that thing at to the stewards and the members , it really was it was an uplift . |
| 4 | But this was what the fans had come to hear , from the downy-cheeked chaps in jeans with their shirts hanging out , to the heavy metal chicks and rock'n'roll babes in their sleeveless leather jackets , chains and biker boots . |
| 5 | These difficulties were forgotten as we cycled down into town and in hot dry afternoon air , shouting ‘ I thought that this was what the weather was supposed to be like ! ’ |
| 6 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 7 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 8 | This was what the surveyor had told the first buyer to whom Jarvis 's mother had offered the School in 1976 . |
| 9 | This was what the bear-leader seemed to be asking of the passenger he now approached , the man who sat in the seat next to the doors . |
| 10 | This was what the carrying out of the policy might involve for those soldiers of the British Army who would be directly responsible for the repatriation operations . |
| 11 | For this was what the immediate past had become . |
| 12 | This was what the audience wanted . |
| 13 | You know , a very good example of this , that always sticks in my mind , telling me erm , that once she was analyzing a woman and er , a lot of the analysis was concerned with erm , conflicts , erm , relating to masturbation in childhood , and constantly felt that this was what the analysis seemed to have done , because the woman consistently denied this had ever happened . |
| 14 | And I as I understand the County Council 's justification , it is that this was what the Secretary of State changed it to in nineteen eighty seven . |
| 15 | As they wound along the twisting tarmac , she had a sense that this was what the island was all about . |
| 16 | So this was what the mystery man was like — arrogant and insulting . |
| 17 | This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing . |
| 18 | This was something the Pioneers seem not to have tried . |
| 19 | Bigger and bigger telescopes were used to investigate whether nebulae were star-clusters or stars in the making ; this was something the spectroscope ultimately answered , because some nebulae gave bright-line spectra characteristic of hot gas rather than of the Sun or a star . |
| 20 | This was nothing the same . |
| 21 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 22 | What was it one , how much was it a week ? |
| 23 | Least of all was it a triumph for the British Prime Minister . |
| 24 | but erm he won at a huge long was it the er Queen Alexandra |
| 25 | During the next two reigns the decline of the Forest administration continued , despite the fact that Elizabeth I was herself an ardent follower of the chase . |
| 26 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 27 | And also sorry , excuse me like the other points there are you a smoker , no my wife does , she smokes twenty was you a smoker |
| 28 | What they had in common was what a lot of people have . ’ |
| 29 | That was something an infantryman could understand . |
| 30 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |