Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were someone the Department needed information from , I could put in an expenses slip for five thousand , and Hilary Todd would sign it . ’ |
| 2 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 3 | It is as if Ted Hughes were himself the patient , suffering maybe from impotence or castration fears , and was here attempting an autotherapy with Shakespeare as a dummy . |
| 4 | Yet I am so much under the spell of your witchery I might have viewed parson 's mousetrap with a kindly eye were you the bait — and not the false promises with which I am to be lured . |
| 5 | Where were you the day they found Pamella Bordes ? |
| 6 | ‘ Where were you the night Riddle disappeared — Friday night ? ’ |
| 7 | Mr were you actually were you the cover man ? |
| 8 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 9 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 10 | Native peoples were not simply savages unable to pit their wits against a superior enemy , nor were they the Russians ' dupes . |
| 11 | Erm were they the master and mistress of the house , in the house all year ? |
| 12 | Were they the ones that really bad ? |
| 13 | Were they the ones you can put in a jar ? |
| 14 | Were they the woman in the photograph ? |
| 15 | What were you took to him Joyce were it the video or television ? |
| 16 | The protests were accompanied by at least eight cases of self-immolation , several of which resulted in deaths and were themselves the focus of further protests . |
| 17 | He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life . |
| 18 | Local peace initiative activities were themselves the targets of violence attacks . |
| 19 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 20 | The Mayor and his friends were themselves the criminals , hand in glove with the smugglers whose leader Jake was clearly an old ally . |
| 21 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 22 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 23 | GREEN SHOOTS of recovery were what the Chancellor said he could see last year , but the rest of us are still waiting for them . |
| 24 | With high land values and the lowest UK unemployment , almost 50 per cent of the very small holdings were what the survey classed as ‘ amenity farming ’ , in which land and buildings are acquired with ‘ a desirable residence and the agricultural activities carried out largely for pleasure ’ . |
| 25 | There were what the head called ‘ social concerns ’ behind his transfer . |
| 26 | When we asked staff to look closely at these figures , it turned out that about half in each case , 5% ( June ) and 45 ( November ) , were what the staff would classify as ‘ real truants ’ . |
| 27 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 28 | Until these larger sets can be made in production quantities , electronics companies will probably push miniature sets as if they were what the consumer wanted all along . |
| 29 | He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it . |
| 30 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |