Example sentences of "[pron] was the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 2 | These provisions attracted little attention while the Bill was debated and passed , and the Minister , Reginald McKenna , was able to be vague on the important question of the source of finance , which was the local rates . |
| 3 | In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug . |
| 4 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 5 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 6 | Oh right , who was the two groups then ? |
| 7 | I I ca n't I mi , who was the last dancers they had on Top of the Pops ? |
| 8 | One was the normal powers available to local authorities , with the usual machinery for appeals and a public inquiry . |
| 9 | One was The Last Days of America , the other The Fall of the Russian Empire , both set in the future . |
| 10 | No , no , there was the girls school and there was the two boys school |
| 11 | Me dad hates that song , well there was the two lads and two girls pretending to be sailors or whatever they were . |
| 12 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 13 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 14 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 15 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 16 | Can you imagine the ruffs here and there was the poofy trousers and the , and the tights . |
| 17 | They were coming over in bloody gangs , right , there was the little ducks , you know the ones with green heads , so we were giving them bread and then all of a sudden the other side |
| 18 | Yeah there all Australian , I mean , everybody was the Australian men , but there not , I mean some of them are really nice , . |
| 19 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 20 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 21 | It was the unreconstructed Communists who continued in charge . |
| 22 | One such change arose because , although in general it was the better houses that were sold , some tenants bought houses , without survey , that were in poor structural condition ( especially prefabricated buildings ) and were soon experiencing difficulties paying for repairs and maintenance . |
| 23 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 24 | It was the two boys who s who set up put it into action . |
| 25 | More than anything else it was the two essays Camus wrote evoking ‘ the great free love of nature and the sea ’ at Tipasa that made me come to Algeria . |
| 26 | It was the two shots fired from this hand on that summer morning in the Balkans that ignited the smouldering embers of war in Europe and led to the fire that caused the conflagration that created the holocaust . |
| 27 | For it was the complex machinations of these processes that provided the ‘ data ’ on crime and criminals that positivist criminologists used to build their theories . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 29 | Indeed , claim Thatcherites , it was the Blue Chips who plotted her downfall in November 1990 . |
| 30 | In 1987 , it was the paramilitary extortionists of the UDA who came under scrutiny . |