Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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' . |
| 2 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 3 | Was it the Monklands ? |
| 4 | Was it the Monklands you were in , when you dislocated |
| 5 | One I think was the industry and the other was was it the Brendan that he says in |
| 6 | and on the front page of the Sunday Sports , was it the Sunday Sport ? |
| 7 | well when the , the UN people , was it the UN people , were trapped in the raft |
| 8 | Was it the Dandy ? |
| 9 | But oh that 's where the Was it the Clydesdale bank that 's at the top of Castle Street ? |
| 10 | Was it the Beaujolais Nouveau was n't it this week was it ? |
| 11 | For some members of staff , study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about . |
| 12 | But that was what the SAS was all about . |
| 13 | To the accusation that Performance Plus was encouraging staff to chase customers for payment , Bob observed that he thought that was what the BBC was doing with people who hadn ‘ t bought a TV licence . |
| 14 | That , too , was what the West Germans thought prior to their opening 1982 World Cup finals game in Spain . |