Example sentences of "[vb past] be [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And they got are the kids alive ? |
| 2 | The changes proposed were the ones that Ken Clarke and later William Waldegrave took through . |
| 3 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 4 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 5 | What he provided were the principles . |
| 6 | What they found was a police operation aimed at sending them back where they came from . |
| 7 | On investigation all the shepherd found was the remnants of a hare 's carcase . |
| 8 | What I found was the Women 's Movement and I dedicated myself completely to it at all levels from forming advice groups , demonstrating to reclaim the streets etc . |
| 9 | I do n't deny I hoped it was Dysart she was planning to ruin — I wondered if there 'd been a lovers ’ tiff — but she let nothing slip . |
| 10 | There 'd been no women before then , in the sense of a community . |
| 11 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 12 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 13 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 14 | The only people who suffered were the prisoners , who were not allowed to go for walks any more . |
| 15 | The place looked heart-wrenchingly familiar , yet in several respects changed too , for as they pulled up below the main steps the first things she noticed were the banks of geraniums and polyanthus cascading over the balconies and frothing down either side of the entrance . |
| 16 | But , apart from the devastation , especially in the harbour area , the only real dissimilarities I noticed were the shutters on the houses and the fact that the dwellings were all taller and narrower than in England . |
| 17 | The first thing I noticed was the bandages , from ankle to thigh . |
| 18 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean , what I heard was the tapes ? ’ |
| 20 | Like the hon. Gentleman , my impressions of what I saw are the recollections of a person who was shocked by the wanton destruction that occurred during the riot . |
| 21 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 22 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 23 | Right now all that mattered were the patients . |
| 24 | In a 1907 study of West Ham , 53 per cent of the 520 women homeworkers investigated were the wives of casual labourers , or men on short time . |
| 25 | All I knew were the half-truths and lies that children were told in those days . |
| 26 | The only suitable families they knew were the Trants , the Rices and the Hoares over at Castlegregory , and the sons of these families were all inextricably involved in the conflicts between the English Lord Deputy and the Irish earls . |
| 27 | The section we chose were the ones that were chosen by the pathologist because they were the best representative sample of that tumour . |
| 28 | For Caroline Spry the most important things that the grant-aided sector offered were the opportunities to learn , to experiment and , if necessary , to fail . |
| 29 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 30 | All we saw were the bodies in the morgue and I remember parties carrying them away . |