Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many were appointed to established societies and institutes some were to found their own missions — such was the case of George Annand Mackenzie , the first born-deaf man in Britain to get a M.A. degree . |
| 2 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 3 | And there would certainly be no commercial benefits if Anglo-Welsh were to substitute their own products for those of Palatine . |
| 4 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 5 | In the remaining 11 provinces , M-19 was to present its own list of candidates . |
| 6 | The impact on the Germans was immediate ; from this moment , said the Reichs Archives , ‘ began the flanking fire on the ravines and roads north of Douaumont that was to cause us such severe casualties . ’ |
| 7 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 8 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 9 | Was it Rabbi Moishe 's imminent departure to Palestine that was making him more withdrawn than usual ? |