Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 2 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 3 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 4 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 5 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 8 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 9 | They could be asked to guess which was the earliest , and to give reasons for their choice . |
| 10 | That would be the only way to establish which was the shortest . |
| 11 | I do know she was the subtlest of nags . |
| 12 | Do you know who was the first to coach the men 's and women 's champions in one year ? |
| 13 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 14 | Erm I shall pass no comment on those , but I do know whose was the lowest bid . |
| 15 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 16 | There was something at St Michael 's but I did n't know it was the one world week . |
| 17 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 19 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 20 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 21 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 22 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 23 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 24 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 25 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 26 | Having identified who has joined the church in the past year we need to know what were the main influences which caused them to make their decision . |
| 27 | It was not hard to guess what was the wrong answer . |
| 28 | In order to sustain the argument that I am putting forward here , it is important to establish what were the major arguments levelled by anthropologists and others against the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 29 | The task of the research team , which also included Professor Neville Brown and Mr Takis Tridimas was firstly to establish what were the comparable legal professions in the other ten Member States ( Belgium , Denmark , France , Germany , Greece , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Spain and Portugal ) , and then to determine their exact educational and training requirements . |
| 30 | And do you know what was the worst thing of all — do you ? ’ |