Example sentences of "[was/were] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was once a convent is now a comfortable , welcoming hotel . |
| 2 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 3 | This was because a degree was part of the training of a gentleman , and not a technical qualification ; the scientist was as well-educated , though in a different line , as the classicist . |
| 4 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 5 | Dooling argued that this was because a context can affect sentence comprehension in two different ways . |
| 6 | He wondered if it was because a woman 's mind worked in a different way to a man 's or whether Blanche simply thought too much . |
| 7 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 8 | ’ I think the reason why The Lost Boys was so successful was because a lot of people can relate to someone like David . |
| 9 | At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano . |
| 10 | Forresters first was after a ball dinked over to White on the right hand side of the box ( facing goal ) , he hooked it over his shoulder — square to about the pen spot and forrester did a flying scissor-kick/volley which flew into the net . |
| 11 | The underlying question , however , was whether a company of this size — with virtually all of its sales confined to the British market — could survive . |
| 12 | The issue here was whether a chamber of commerce textile arbitration should have heard expert evidence . |
| 13 | The test was whether a child ‘ accompanied as necessary ’ could use it with reasonable safety . |
| 14 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 15 | The issue before the House of Lords was whether a court of summary jurisdiction , having once accepted a plea of guilty , had jurisdiction to allow the defendant to change his plea to not guilty . |
| 16 | The billion-dollar question was whether a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York 's position as a financial centre . |
| 17 | So a central issue at the meeting was whether a man is more like a dog , a rat , a pig or some other animal in terms of the distribution of endothelin receptors . |
| 18 | Alan Harle , for the prosecution , said the court 's decision was whether a jury could convict , not whether it would convict . |
| 19 | ‘ The question as stated at the beginning of his argument by Mr. MacDermot was whether a tenant against whom a final order for possession has been made is a tenant within section 12(1) ( g ) . |
| 20 | More recently , in a modern banking case certainty arose when the issue was whether a char-terer had paid the owner on time . |
| 21 | A dyspeptic , phlebitic , tuberculous — yet still bellicose — gourmet , to whom such rarefied nourishment was as a staff of life … |