Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 2 | Instead , they were faced with a statement from a Scotland Yard spokesman that there was no indication that this was terrorist activity , while the IRA had denied all involvement . |
| 3 | This was sandrat heaven . |
| 4 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , this was film work , actually — crowd work and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | ( This was Operation Calendar — KE ) |
| 7 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 8 | It sounds as if this was Mark Twain 's experience : |
| 9 | But this was desert country and the Indians were usually dusty and unwashed . |
| 10 | This was telephone bingo . |
| 11 | At first John imagined that this was relief food on its way to a Commissariat depot , for it was guarded by a large body of troops , about eighty infantry and fifty cavalry as well as two field guns and their crews — half on one bank , half on the other . |
| 12 | This was Rudford Mill , a three-storey building with a two-storey loft and storehouse . |
| 13 | The classic example of this was William Marshal , the fourth son of a Wiltshire baron , the story of whose successful career on the tournament field is told with loving detail in L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal . |
| 14 | This was schlock science , then and now at odds with mainstream genetics , but it was science in the service of ideology for a paranoid dictator in a hurry to make over his country . |
| 15 | This was household government and justice could be dispensed wherever the pope was . |
| 16 | The Boards ' main weapon in a situation like this was public opinion , and , with elections pending , it was a particularly effective one . |
| 17 | This was Hinkley Point , an industrial complex on the Somerset coast which already housed two nuclear power stations , and which proudly boasted in its publicity that it was ‘ Britain 's biggest ’ . |
| 18 | While listening to Mrs Wimbush 's diatribe , Juliet had slowly come to realise that although this was Thorn House it was no longer the maternity home Elaine had known . |
| 19 | Again , though , this was customer specification . |
| 20 | John told Anne that this was embarkation leave and he would soon be going to France but warned her not to mention it to anyone . |
| 21 | This was gang warfare of a thoroughly nasty kind . |
| 22 | This was chamber music-making , but still with the full and characteristic Berlin sound ? |
| 23 | Yet this was Sunday morning , not the weekday rush hour . |
| 24 | This was Sunday evening , the end of the one day of the week when the Factory was idle . |
| 25 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 26 | This was North Down , a relative haven of tranquillity in a troubled land , hugging the prosperous southern coastline of Belfast Lough from Holywood to Bangor and inland to the housing estates of Dundonald . |
| 27 | This was £50 worth , the value of the cheque card . |
| 28 | How could it be otherwise , since this was Wyvis Hall and the pine wood and the animal cemetery ? |
| 29 | There was no other sign that this was Wyvis Hall . |
| 30 | This was Hugh Templar taking over . |