Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was what the surveyor had told the first buyer to whom Jarvis 's mother had offered the School in 1976 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For this was what the immediate past had become . |
| 9 | This was what the audience wanted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As they wound along the twisting tarmac , she had a sense that this was what the island was all about . |
| 13 | So this was what the mystery man was like — arrogant and insulting . |
| 14 | This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing . |
| 15 | This was something the Pioneers seem not to have tried . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was nothing the same . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union ’ : that was what the words meant , and again they were very old words , from the days of ancient Rome . |
| 20 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 21 | We do n't believe that was what the public intended when they donated to the Trust . ’ |
| 22 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 23 | But that was what the SAS was all about . |
| 24 | At least , that was what the next-door dog , Bully , did , and Angela really judged all dogs by Bully , who was a big , black-faced alsatian who looked fierce and dangerous but was really just young , strong , and bursting with love and high spirits . |
| 25 | DO IT DO IT DO IT — that was what the dream had said . |
| 26 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 27 | That was what the British people wanted but the Establishment did n't . |
| 28 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 29 | That was what the present had on offer to Michael Holly . |
| 30 | That was what the chevauchée was intended to achieve . |