Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calthrop ’ … one of the two loco 's which were the Light Railway 's sole traction up to its premature demise and named after the nine mile long line 's Chief Engineer . |
| 2 | Yeah and who 's who was the one that died ? |
| 3 | It was Henry the Eighth 's he was the last Catholic chamberlain actually . |
| 4 | If you sp if you spend five minutes drawing a diagram or going through the equations person knows one aspect of this model in great detail , what they want to know is what was the importance of that , of that model , important results of the model . |
| 5 | The question to be answered is what was the consumer reasonably expecting , not what are his strict legal rights . |
| 6 | The crucial question under s3(2) ( b ) is what was the performance reasonably expected of the proferens ? |
| 7 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 8 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 9 | What I ca n't reconcile is what was the rich peasant . |
| 10 | Applying Lord Bridge 's guiding principles it is clear that the first question to be determined in this appeal is what were the transactions which produced the profit to the taxpayer . |