Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [was/were] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 2 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 3 | There may be an element of revolutionary wishful thinking here : if all the system had to worry about was the minority of people who seriously call for the abolition of prisons or the prospect of the imminent overthrow of capitalism there would not be much of a crisis . |
| 4 | In my experience , the only thing Liverpool players ever used to worry about was the game in hand . |
| 5 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |
| 6 | And er after er my grandfather made that bike , after he started business on his own , he had , well the next thing came in was the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 7 | What a man had done before he joined up was the past , and the past was unconnected with the Legion , and therefore irrelevant . |
| 8 | The way it turned out was the way young Niccolò wanted it . |
| 9 | Last in was the train passenger , who took 52 mins ( average speed , 7.5 mph ) ; this , despite the fact that a train was scheduled at exactly the right time for the contestant to catch by cycling the 0.7 miles from the start to the station . |
| 10 | She wished she could see Bella 's face properly , but the shadows were thick and all she could make out was the outline of a head . |
| 11 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 12 | All he could take in was the muzzle of the gun the silent terror of the girl next to him and the Woman 's stony face . |
| 13 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 14 | Typical of what went on was the booking of Weir . |
| 15 | Colin checked round the room , the only appliance plugged in was the fire . |
| 16 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 17 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 18 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 19 | Because one reason in Nottingham why they went back was the fact Blidworth Pit was starting to turn coal . |
| 20 | What made the case stand out was the motivation for Otto 's pilfering . |
| 21 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 22 | As it turned out , the team to be knocked out was the West German team in heat two . |
| 23 | As in the Recruit scandal , the only party to be left out were the Communists , and the lion 's share of the money went to the the ruling Liberal Democrat Party . |
| 24 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 25 | Other victims it carried off were the acid Mrs Friar in Forres and old Jan van Meers in New Zealand . |
| 26 | Among the projects carried out were the creation of two folk museums , the laying out of public parks and gardens ; a nature trail ; a children 's playground ; the restoration of an old ‘ Norse ’ mill , and the laying down of a car park for a small craft shop . |
| 27 | One of the details of the New Festspielhaus in Salzburg that people like to gossip about was the fact that the orchestra pit could be raised or lowered by you at the touch of a button . |
| 28 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 29 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 30 | Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart . |