Example sentences of "[vb past] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rotherham has an Asian presence , but most of the places I visited are the old , white , axis of the English working class , immunised from the input of England 's new nationalities . |
| 2 | The main cultures which Spengler analysed were the Apollinian ( Classical ) , Magian ( Eastern ) and Faustian ( Western ) . |
| 3 | Among those whom Collor retained were the three ministers with responsibility for military portfolios and the Economy Minister Marcílio Marques Moreira , who was identified with the IMF-approved economic austerity programme . |
| 4 | In the upper panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were the 47 bp Mam I- Sfa NI fragment for the wt- , -65 , -68 , -72 and -73 mutant promoters and the 52 bp Mam I- Sau 3A fragment for the -75 mutant promoter . |
| 5 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 6 | The instructions for the risk rating and the scale used were the same as those used for Study 2 . |
| 7 | The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter . |
| 8 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 9 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 10 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 11 | Swam is the only word . |
| 12 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 13 | One of the motives mentioned was the actual and expected levels of interest rates . |
| 14 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 15 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 16 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 17 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 18 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 19 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 20 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 21 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 22 | And every single thing they found was the same . |
| 23 | Each random spot she tried was the same . |
| 24 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 25 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 26 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 27 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 28 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 29 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 30 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |