Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could Theo lay his hands on some that was the colour of unbleached muslin or linen ? |
| 2 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 3 | And on top of all that were the meetings of groupings from around the globe , with early morning delegation meetings to talk tactics ( and more of same late each evening ) . |
| 4 | The two youngest classes in the single-sex secondary moderns were mixed , and for many that was the most disturbing change of all . |
| 5 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 6 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 7 | I do not believe for a moment that , with unemployment heading towards three million , the benefits would be significantly dissipated by higher inflation , any more than were the benefits of depreciation in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | In one way these fears were justified , for UNRWA had no will of its own but was the servant of the international community . |
| 9 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |